TMA Associates (CA)
Provides publications and consulting in speech recognition and other advanced speech technologies, including speech recognition newsletter. Includes recent news. Also publishes market studies.
http://www.tmaa.com/

Biometrics Privacy Initiative
Organization discussing finger scan, voice scan, iris scan, retina scan technologies, standards and privacy issues.
http://www.bioprivacy.org

Biometric Consortium: Research and Databases
Directory of links to various to kinds of identification methods.
http://www.biometrics.org/html/research.html

The Biometrics Discussion Group
Discussion list for anyone interested in the technology.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biometrics/

INS Passenger Accelerated Service System (INSPASS)
About the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service's possible future use of biometric technologies in identifying incoming passengers.
http://www.biometrics.org/REPORTS/INSPASS.html

HAND GEOMETRY
Michigan State University
http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/hand_geometry.html

MultiBiometrics
Michigan State University
http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/multi_bio.html

Face Location
Michigan State University
http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/face_location.html

Biometrics Publications
Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Lab Department of Computer Science And Engineering Michigan State University.
http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/publications.html

The FBI Fingerprint Image Compression Standard
(uses wavelets)- Chris Brislawn home page
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~brislawn/FBI/FBI.html

The Telephony Voice User Interface
Market Studies and Source Guides (William S. Meisel - TMA Associates).
http://www.tmaa.com/studies/telvui/telvui.htm

The Importance of Benchmarking
(Fingerprint identification)
http://www.dss.state.ct.us/digital/bench.htm

Ed Germans AFIS Links page
(AFIS - Automated Fingerprint Identification)
http://onin.com/fp/afis/afis.html#Miscellaneous Sites

Touching big brother
How biometric technology will fuse flesh and machine; Simon G. Davies, Department of Law, University Of Essex (UK) "Information Technology and People", Vol 7, No. 4 1994.
http://www.privacy.org/pi/reports/biometric.html

A normal glass pane?
The possible future of finger and hand recognition and identification (Optel, PL)
http://www.optel.com.pl/article/english/glass.htm

Ultrasonic setup for fingerprint patterns detection and evaluation
(Optel, PL)
http://www.optel.com.pl/article/english/article2.htm

Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication
Conference
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/lsd/avbpa/avbpa.html

Speech Research
Links
http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/speech.html

International Biometric Group
Biometrics information including reports on hand geometry, iris, retina, finger scan, and face geometry. IBG's BiometricStore, Comdex and Bio1.com.
http://www.biometricgroup.com/

Fingerprint Enhancement by Shape Adaptation of Scale-Space Operators with Automatic Scale-Selection
Andrés Almansa and Tony Lindeberg Technical Report TRITA-NA/P--98/03--SE.
http://www.nada.kth.se/cvap/abstracts/cvap216.html

CardTech SecurTech
conferences and exhibitions of smart cards, biometrics, and other advanced identification and security technology.
http://www.ctst.com/

Biometrics References
Biometric Consortium
http://www.biometrics.org/REPORTS/BioRef.html

Face Database, Articles
Olivetti Research, Ltd
http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/olivetti.html

Visual Person Identification Using Lip Motion Features
Chihara-Lab (Japan)
http://chihara.aist-nara.ac.jp/people/94/yosiyu-o/research/research.html

FaceSnap recorder - digital video recording and face recognition
digital video recorder with built-in face recognition (C-VIS Computer Vision und Automation GmbH).
http://www.facesnap.de

Fusion of Face and Speech Data for Person Identity Verification
Souheil Ben-Yacoub, Yousri Abdeljaoued, and Eddy Mayoraz (IDIAP-RR 99-03, 1999).
http://www.idiap.ch/publications/souheil-99-03.bib.abs.html

An Open Interstate Matching Specification
This document describes a standard data format for the interchange of client fingerprint and facial information between dissimilar human services assistance programs. The Managing Double Dipping (MaDD) specification is a tag-based file format for storing and interchanging data and images and is compliant with the ANSI/NIST standard for fingerprint exchange. (Sagem Morpho Incorp.)
http://www.dss.state.ct.us/digital/matchspec.htm

YOHO CD-ROM Voice Verification Corpus
A standard database for testing voice verification systems (Biometric Consortium).
http://www.biometrics.org/REPORTS/ICASSP95.html

ThinkQuest Library: The Basics of Biometrics
Explains characteristics of different parts of the body can be used to aid identification.
http://library.thinkquest.org/28062/

Recent News (Speech Recognition Update)
TMA Associates
http://www.tmaa.com/news_index.htm

Biometrics Discussion Group
French biometrics discussion group. Groupe de discussion en français sur la Biométrie.
http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/biometrie/

findBIOMETRICS.com
Resource for Biometric technologies and applications. Articles, reports, vendor directory and daily press releases.
http://www.findbiometrics.com

GFF Format Summary
Provides content regarding data format for the interchange of fingerprint information.
http://www.oreilly.com/www/centers/gff/formats/ansi/

SJSU.edu
Article on the functions of biometric identification devices.
http://www.angel-investor-news.com/ART_Biometric.htm

Scafo.org: Thumbprinting Gets Thumbs Up
By Kalpana Srinivasan, The Associated Press, April 1997
http://www.scafo.org/library/140305.html

Pattern Recognition Information
Links
http://www.ph.tn.tudelft.nl/PRInfo/index.html

Speaker Identification by Lip Reading
By Juergen Luettin, Neil Thacker and Steve Beet. Paper describing a new approach to speaker identification based on lipreading.
http://www.asel.udel.edu/icslp/cdrom/vol1/954/a954.pdf

Review and evaluation of Biometric Techniques
INFOSEC (EU), ETS: Preparatory Studies
http://cordis.europa.eu/infosec/src/study5.htm

Fingerprint Image Enhancement: Algorithm and Performance Evaluation
Trans. PAMI, abstract.
http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/trans/tp/&toc=comp/trans/tp/1998/08/i8toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/34.709565

Fingerprint Classification by Directional Image Partitioning
Raffaele Cappelli, Alessandra Lumini, Dario Maio, Member, IEEE, and Davide Maltoni (Trans. PAMI, Abstract)
http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/trans/tp/&toc=comp/trans/tp/1999/05/i5toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/34.765653

Iris recognition
Webpage of John Daugman, Cambridge University (UK) teacher and researcher in computer vision, neuroscience, and pattern recognition; inventor of iris recognition.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/