Broken Symmetries, Random Morphogenesis, and Biometric Distance
- Submitting institution
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 8948
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1109/tbiom.2020.2993225
- Title of journal
- IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science
- Article number
- 3
- First page
- 271
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 2637-6407
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Citation count
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is the first quantitative exploration into how morphogenesis of high-entropy patterns (iris patterns in this case) combine randomness with genetic influences. It shows that genetically identical eyes (the two possessed by one person, or the four possessed by monozygotic twins, or in a possible future the 2N eyes possessed by N clones) generate almost completely uncorrelated IrisCodes. This is important for national ID systems, because face recognition algorithms are unable to distinguish between MZ twins and, in countries such as the Indian subcontinent where cousin marriages are commonplace, it is important to understand genetic penetrance into biometric identifiers.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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