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Everything about biometrics since the first electronic sensor is here. You will find hidden treasures like some unexpected biometric modalities, stupid myths, the full list of electronic fingerprint sensors, the full list of movies with biometrics, some applications you have never thought of, but exist, the very first phones with a fingerprint sensor, all historical papers related to aliveness detection, and more.
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Jean-François Mainguet is involved in biometrics for a long time now, having invented the silicon swipe fingerprint sensing when working with Thomson-CSF :

The 1997 sensor shown on the above imave is not from Thomson-CSF (unfortunately, it is an error in the paper). You can see some photos in the FingerChip website, which is devoted to this thermal-based fingerprint sensor I invented end of 1995. That said, thank you to consider this invention as an important step in fingerprint sensing!

Also, Apple did not made the first phone with a fingerprint sensor, (I counted about 100 different phones before, and the first real consumer product was the HP iPAQ) but they really opened the fingerprint sensor market in September 2013 with the iPhone 5S. Why ? Maybe it was just the right time...

• Biometrics basics : this is where you should start. Follow the tour !
• Biometric modalities (or types) : all existing modalities, I'm sure that you don't know some of them.
• Aliveness detection : is this a real or a fake finger ?
• Applications using biometrics, and especially fingerprints
• Myths about biometrics
• Media (photo, video, cartoons) related to biometrics, and especially my infamous and extended list of big screen movies with biometrics.