Privacy through Biometric De-identification: Bridging the Gap Between Legal and Technological Perspectives

Biometrics refers to the automated process of recognizing individuals based on their physical and behavioral attributes such as face, fingerprints, iris, gait, and voice. A face biometric system, for example, compares two face images and computes a match score indicating the degree of similarity or dissimilarity between them. This automated comparison process can be used to determine the identity of an unknown face image.

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