Technology that supports older adults can have a positive effect on their psychological and physical well-being in a way that they may live independently for longer periods of time. This study is conducted to identify relevant factors that influence the use of smart home and telecare technologies in …

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A succesful design, deployment and operation of biometric systems depends highly on the results for existing biometrical technologies and components. These existing technologies as well as new solutions need to be evaluated on their performance. However it is often forgotten that the biometric (iris, …

Local Gabor features (jets) have been widely used in face recognition systems. Once the sets of jets have been extracted from the two faces to be compared, a proper measure of similarity (or distance) between corresponding features should be chosen. For instance, in the well known Elastic Bunch Graph …

Het Bisschoppelijk College is een van de weinige middelbare scholen die hun communicatiebeleid professioneel vormgeven. Het is onze taak om dit verder te verbeteren. Doel In deze scriptie bekijken we voor het Bisschoppelijk College welke knelpunten er zijn tussen de organisatie- en communicatie-elementen …

Embedded systems and ambient technology enable users to interact at any time and anywhere. In the BASIS project for identity management, CWI investigates transparent biometrics in home environments. Possible application areas are user profiling for shopping , listening to one's favourite music and operating …

In a real-world environment a face detector can be applied to extract multiple face images from multiple video streams without constraints on pose and illumination. The extracted face images will have varying image quality and resolution. Moreover, also the detected faces will not be precisely aligned. …

Network Nation part of Else/Where Mapping, new cartographies of networks and territories; edited by Janet Abrams and Peter Hall, University of Minnesota Press 2006.