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Biometric Sensor Data Acquisition Overview

The document discusses biometric sensors, which are essential for measuring biometric signals and converting them into digital formats for analysis. It outlines the data acquisition process, components of a data acquisition system, and the challenges of maintaining a biometric database, including scalability and matching time. Additionally, it compares loose and tight integration architectures for biometric data processing, highlighting their respective advantages and disadvantages.

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Biometric Sensor Data Acquisition Overview

The document discusses biometric sensors, which are essential for measuring biometric signals and converting them into digital formats for analysis. It outlines the data acquisition process, components of a data acquisition system, and the challenges of maintaining a biometric database, including scalability and matching time. Additionally, it compares loose and tight integration architectures for biometric data processing, highlighting their respective advantages and disadvantages.

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18CSE357T – BIOMETRICS

Unit –2 : Session –1 : SLO -2

SRM Institute of Science and Technology 1


BIOMETRICS SENSOR
To measure any type of biometric signal, a biometric sensor is required. This sensor
may either output the raw signal or additionally convert the raw signal into a set of
features that is better suited to distinguish between signals from separate
individuals.
DATA ACQUISITION
Data acquisition is the process of sampling signals that measure real-world physical
conditions and converting the resulting samples into digital numeric values that can be
manipulated by a computer.
HOW IT WORKS
Biometric sensor acquisition is the process of capturing
information about a biological attribute of the subject, as it
exists within a specific time frame. The objective is to
measure data that can be used to derive unique properties
of the subject that are stable and repeatable over time and
over variations in acquisition conditions.
Typically, the capture process measures a physical property
that is affected by the biological characteristic of interest,
and converts the measured data into a format that is
suitable for analysis – typically a digital electronic format
compatible with computerized analysis.
COMPONENTS OF DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM

[Link] System
[Link]
[Link] Conditioning Circuitry
[Link] to Digital Converters
DATA ACQUISITION BLOCK DIAGRAM
BIOMETRIC DATABASE
• Maintaining a huge Biometric database
may cause scalability problems
• Matching time increases with the increase
in database sizes
• Biometric data has no natural ordering
• Matching should be fast for a real-time
system
ARCHITECTURE
LOOSE INTEGRATION
• Biometric data is loaded from a database
table into memory
• Matching done on custom-built memory-
based structures
• – (+) Results in fast matching
• – (-) The solution is memory-bound Further
scalability, achieved by using Server Farms
– (-) Vendor-centric solution
• – (-) Can not be easily extended to support
multi- modal systems
TIGHT INTEGRATION
• Template matching is implemented within
the RDBMS and performed using SQL Allows
Biometric Vendor to exploit full capabilities
of RDBMS including
• – Security
• – Scalability and availability
• – Parallelism

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