ABSTRACT
A growing proportion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are constituted by biometric sensors, as the biometric technology develops on mainstream infrastructure of multimedia devices and cloud platforms. Research in the field of IoT is enabled owing to sensors, networking, cloud computing, edge computing, big data, machine learning intelligence, security and privacy. This makes the domain of this field quite interdisciplinary. The final goal is to provide a new class of applications and services. From a standardization perspective, the Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT) can be viewed as a global infrastructure, enabling advanced biometric services by interconnecting physical/virtual objects based on multimedia communication systems. The MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) working group develops IoMT technical specification of interfaces, protocols and associated formats. The success of the Internet of Biometric Things (IoBT) depends strongly on the existence and effective operation of global standards. An evolution of biometrics technology, cloud frameworks and standardization activities are outlined in this chapter.
