Some Research Problems in Biometrics: The Future Beckons
It addresses critical identity verification problems for applications like security and personal devices, but is incremental as it reviews existing challenges without introducing new solutions.
The paper discusses unresolved fundamental issues and exciting challenges in biometrics, which is increasingly used for identity determination across various domains, but does not present specific results or numbers.
The need for reliably determining the identity of a person is critical in a number of different domains ranging from personal smartphones to border security; from autonomous vehicles to e-voting; from tracking child vaccinations to preventing human trafficking; from crime scene investigation to personalization of customer service. Biometrics, which entails the use of biological attributes such as face, fingerprints and voice for recognizing a person, is being increasingly used in several such applications. While biometric technology has made rapid strides over the past decade, there are several fundamental issues that are yet to be satisfactorily resolved. In this article, we will discuss some of these issues and enumerate some of the exciting challenges in this field.