This documents also includes a list with Questions and Answers useful for the preparation for the oral exam. Unfortunately the Q&A is only available in Italian.
- Introduction to Biometric Systems
- Performance Evaluation
- Threshold in Biometric Verification
- False Acceptance Rate and False Rejection Rate
- Genuine Acceptance Rate, Genuine Rejection Rate, and their relationship with the other rates
- Impostor and Client score distributions
- Equal Error Rate
- ROC, DET and AUC
- Detection and Identification Rate at rank K (DIR)
- Cumulative Match Score and Cumulative Match Characteristic Curve (CMS and CMC)
- Offline Performance Evaluation
- K-Fold Cross Validation
- All (Probes )Against All (Gallery)
- Complete All Against All
- Supervised and Semi-Supervised Systems
- Reliability of an Identification System
- Doddington Zoo
- Face Recognition
- Comparing Face with other biometric traits
- Problems with Face Recognition
- Popular Datasets
- Face Recognizer
- Face Localization - Hsu, Mottaleb and Jain algorithm
- Face Localization - Viola Jones algorithm
- AdaBoost
- Haar features
- Face Representations
- EBGM - Elastic Bunch Graph Matching
- Global (or holistic) methods vs Local methods
- 3D Face Recognition
- Evaluation between systems in Face Recognition
- Spoofing in Face Recognition
- Curse of dimesionality
- PCA - Principal Component Analysis
- LDA - Linear Discriminant Analysis
- Wavelet Transforms vs Fourier Transforms
- LBP - Local Binary Pattern
- Ear Recognition
- Iris Recognition
- Fingerprint Recognition
- Multibiometric systems