摘要
Research on biometrics for high security applica- tions has not attracted as much attention as civilian or foren- sic applications. Limited research and deficient analysis so far has led to a lack of general solutions and leaves this as a challenging issue. This work provides a systematic analy- sis and identification of the problems to be solved in order to meet the performance requirements for high security applica- tions, a double low problem. A hybrid ensemble framework is proposed to solve this problem. Setting an adequately high threshold for each matcher can guarantee a zero false accep- tance rate （FAR） and then use the hybrid ensemble framework makes the false reject rate （FRR） as low as possible. Three ex- periments are performed to verify the effectiveness and gener- alization of the framework. First, two fingerprint verification algorithms are fused. In this test only 10.55% of fingerprints are falsely rejected with zero false acceptance rate, this is sig- nificantly lower than other state of the art methods. Second, in face verification, the framework also results in a large re- duction in incorrect classification. Finally, assessing the per- formance of the framework on a combination of face and gait verification using a heterogeneous database show this frame- work can achieve both 0% false rejection and 0% false accep- tance simultaneously.
Research on biometrics for high security applica- tions has not attracted as much attention as civilian or foren- sic applications. Limited research and deficient analysis so far has led to a lack of general solutions and leaves this as a challenging issue. This work provides a systematic analy- sis and identification of the problems to be solved in order to meet the performance requirements for high security applica- tions, a double low problem. A hybrid ensemble framework is proposed to solve this problem. Setting an adequately high threshold for each matcher can guarantee a zero false accep- tance rate （FAR） and then use the hybrid ensemble framework makes the false reject rate （FRR） as low as possible. Three ex- periments are performed to verify the effectiveness and gener- alization of the framework. First, two fingerprint verification algorithms are fused. In this test only 10.55% of fingerprints are falsely rejected with zero false acceptance rate, this is sig- nificantly lower than other state of the art methods. Second, in face verification, the framework also results in a large re- duction in incorrect classification. Finally, assessing the per- formance of the framework on a combination of face and gait verification using a heterogeneous database show this frame- work can achieve both 0% false rejection and 0% false accep- tance simultaneously.
