BrandPost: Introduction to Biometric Modalities

You might associate biometrics with the fingerprint scanner on your smartphone, or the face camera at the airport, but in truth there are a wide range of biometric types, or modalities.Every biometric modality works along the same basic principle: capture and measure specific biological (anatomical and physiological) or behavioral characteristics, analyze them to create and store a digital representation called a template, then match new captures against the template to verify identity. Where th