This book

·         introduces novel machine-learning-based temporal normalization techniques

·         bridges research gaps concerning the effect of footwear and stepping speed on footstep GRF-based person recognition

·         compares biometrics systems trained and tested with the same footwear against those trained and tested with different footwear

James Eric Masonobtained his BSEng and MASc from the University of Victoria, Canada, in 2009and 2014, respectively. During his Masters program, under the supervision ofDr. Issa Traore, his research focused primarily on biometric security solutionswith a particular emphasis on the gait biometric. In 2014 he completed histhesis titledExamining the impact ofNormalization and Footwear on Gait Biometrics Recognition using the GroundReaction Force, which served as an inspiration for the work presented inthis book. His research interests include biometric security, machine learning,software engineering, web development, and weather/climate sciences. Since2011, he has been working with the software startup Referral SaaSquatch as afull stack software developer.

Issa Traoreobtained a PhD in Software Engineering in 1998 from Institute NationalePolytechnique (INPT)-LAAS/CNRS, Toulouse, France. He has been with the facultyof the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University ofVictoria since 1999. He is currently a Full Professor and the Coordinator ofthe Information Security and object Technology (ISOT) Lab at the University of Victoria. His research interests include biometricstechnologies, computer intrusion detection, network forensics, softwaresecurity, and software quality engineering. He is currently serving as Associate Editor for the InternationalJournal of Communication Systems (IJCS) and the International Journal ofCommunication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS). Dr. Traore is also aco-founder and Chief Scientist of Plurilock Security Solutions Inc., a network security company which providesinnovative authentication technologies, and is one of the pioneers in bringingbehavioral biometric authentication products to the market.

Isaac Woungangreceivedhis M.Sc.& Ph.D degrees, all in Mathematics, from the University of AixMarseille II, France, and University of South, Toulon and Var, France, in 1990and 1994 respectively. In 1999, he received a MSc degree from theINRS-Materials and Telecommunications, University of Quebec, Montreal, QC,Canada. From 1999 to 2002, he worked as a software engineer at Nortel Networks,Ottawa, Canada, in the Photonic Line Systems Group. Since 2002, he has beenwith Ryerson University, where he is now a full professor of Computer Scienceand Director of the Distributed Applications and Broadband (DABNEL) Lab. His current research interests includeradio resource management in next generation wireless networks, biometricstechnologies, network security. Dr. Woungang has published 8 books and over 89refereed technical articles in scholarly international journals and proceedingsof international conferences. He has served as Associate Editor of theComputers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), and the International Journalof Communication Systems (Wiley). He has Guest Edited several Special Issueswithvarious reputed journals such as IET Information Security, Mathematicaland Computer Modeling (Elsevier), Computer Communications (Elsevier), Computersand Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), and Telecommunication Systems(Springer). Since January 2012, He serves as Chair of Computer Chapter, IEEEToronto Section.