Applications of Binary Similarity and Distance Measures

TL;DR

This paper surveys how binary similarity and distance measures are used across various fields, highlighting their role in biometric identification and data analysis improvements.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of binary similarity and distance measures and their applications in biometric and data analysis tasks.

Findings

Enhanced accuracy in biometric identification

Broad applicability across different data analysis tasks

Comprehensive survey of binary measures

Abstract

In the recent past, binary similarity measures have been applied in solving biometric identification problems, including fingerprint, handwritten character detection, and in iris image recognition. The application of the relevant measurements has also resulted in more accurate data analysis. This paper surveys the applicability of binary similarity and distance measures in various fields.