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Rated Biometrics: A Very Short Introduction 6/10

3.5/5 stars<br/><br/>An accessible, non-technical, introduction to the technical aspects of biometrics. It not only presents the current state of the art, but also the architectures used to build biometrical solutions and the problems those technologies are meant to solve (identification, validation, prediction). Given the space and technicality constraints of a Very Short Introduction, the author makes two choices, one of them less fortunate than the other.<br/><br/>The "good" choice was to focus on a few examples along the book --- mainly fingerprints, irises, faces, and signatures ---, which are rich enough to provide examples and narrow enough to be well developed. The "bad" choice was to reduce the space dedicated to the social consequences of biometrics, which are mostly sidelined (except for a discussion on ageing). Still, the technical framework presented in the book will provide good foundations who want to know a bit more about the technological possibilities and requirements in order to develop critiques about the social impact of biometrics in its many forms.

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Published 2026-08-19 08:15 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere