A multimodal biometric test bed for quality-dependent, cost-sensitive and client-specific score-level fusion algorithms
✍ Scribed by Norman Poh; Thirimachos Bourlai; Josef Kittler
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 837 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-3203
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✦ Synopsis
This paper presents a test bed, called the Biosecure DS2 score-and-quality database, for evaluating, comparing and benchmarking score-level fusion algorithms for multimodal biometric authentication. It is designed to benchmark quality-dependent, client-specific, cost-sensitive fusion algorithms. A qualitydependent fusion algorithm is one which attempts to devise a fusion strategy that is dependent on the biometric sample quality. A client-specific fusion algorithm, on the other hand, exploits the specific score characteristics of each enrolled user in order to customize the fusion strategy. Finally, a costsensitive fusion algorithm attempts to select a subset of biometric modalities/systems (at a specified cost) in order to obtain the maximal generalization performance. To the best of our knowledge, the BioSecure DS2 data set is the first one designed to benchmark the above three aspects of fusion algorithms. This paper contains some baseline experimental results for evaluating the above three types of fusion scenarios.