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Kung, S. Y. (Sun Yuan)
     Biometric authentication / S. Y. Kung, M. W. Mak, S. H. Lin.
        p. cm. — (Prentice-Hall information and system science series)
     Includes bibliographical references and index.
     ISBN 0-131-47824-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)
     1. Pattern recognition systems. 2. Identification — Automation. 3.
     Biometric identification. I. Mak, M. W. II. Lin, Shang-Hung, 1968- III.
     Title.

  TK7882.P3K84 2004
  621.389'28-dc22                                               2004012612

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