Information fusion in biometric systems, either multimodal or intramodal fusion, usually provides an improvement in recognition performance. This paper presents an improved score-level fusion scheme called boosted sco...Information fusion in biometric systems, either multimodal or intramodal fusion, usually provides an improvement in recognition performance. This paper presents an improved score-level fusion scheme called boosted score fusion. The proposed framework is a two-stage design where an existing fusion algorithm is adopted at the first stage. At the second stage, the weights obtained by the AdaBoost algorithm are utilized to boost the performance of the previously fused results. The experimental results demonstrate that the performance of several score-level fusion methods can be improved by using the presented method.展开更多
A multimodal biometric system is applied to recognize individuals for authentication using neural networks. In this paper multimodal biometric algorithm is designed by integrating iris, finger vein, palm print and fac...A multimodal biometric system is applied to recognize individuals for authentication using neural networks. In this paper multimodal biometric algorithm is designed by integrating iris, finger vein, palm print and face biometric traits. Normalized score level fusion approach is applied and optimized, encoded for matching decision. It is a multilevel wavelet, phase based fusion algorithm. This robust multimodal biometric algorithm increases the security level, accuracy, reduces memory size and equal error rate and eliminates unimodal biometric algorithm vulnerabilities.展开更多
Fusion of multiple instances within a modality for biometric verification performance improvement has received considerable attention. In this letter, we present an iris recognition method based on multiinstance fusio...Fusion of multiple instances within a modality for biometric verification performance improvement has received considerable attention. In this letter, we present an iris recognition method based on multiinstance fusion, which combines the left and right irises of an individual at the matching score level. When fusing, a novel fusion strategy using minimax probability machine (MPM) is applied to generate a fused score for the final decision. The experimental results on CASIA and UBIRIS databases show that the proposed method can bring obvious performance improvement compared with the single-instance method. The comparison among different fusion strategies demonstrates the superiority of the fusion strategy based on MPM.展开更多
Multimodal biometric fusion is gaining more attention among researchers in recent days. As multimodal biometric system consolidates the information from multiple biometric sources, the effective fusion of information ...Multimodal biometric fusion is gaining more attention among researchers in recent days. As multimodal biometric system consolidates the information from multiple biometric sources, the effective fusion of information obtained at score level is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a framework for optimal fusion of match scores based on Gaussian Mixture Mode] (GMM) and Monte Carlo sampling based hypothesis testing. The proposed fusion approach has the ability to handle: 1) small size of match scores as is more commonly encountered in biometric fusion, and 2) arbitrary distribution of match scores which is more pronounced when discrete scores and multimodal features are present. The proposed fusion scheme is compared with well established schemes such as Likelihood Ratio (LR) method and weighted SUM rule. Extensive experiments carried out on five different multimodal biometric databases indicate that the proposed fusion scheme achieves higher performance as compared with other contemporary state of art fusion techniques.展开更多
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文摘Information fusion in biometric systems, either multimodal or intramodal fusion, usually provides an improvement in recognition performance. This paper presents an improved score-level fusion scheme called boosted score fusion. The proposed framework is a two-stage design where an existing fusion algorithm is adopted at the first stage. At the second stage, the weights obtained by the AdaBoost algorithm are utilized to boost the performance of the previously fused results. The experimental results demonstrate that the performance of several score-level fusion methods can be improved by using the presented method.
文摘A multimodal biometric system is applied to recognize individuals for authentication using neural networks. In this paper multimodal biometric algorithm is designed by integrating iris, finger vein, palm print and face biometric traits. Normalized score level fusion approach is applied and optimized, encoded for matching decision. It is a multilevel wavelet, phase based fusion algorithm. This robust multimodal biometric algorithm increases the security level, accuracy, reduces memory size and equal error rate and eliminates unimodal biometric algorithm vulnerabilities.
基金supported by the PhD Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (No.20050698025)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60602025).
文摘Fusion of multiple instances within a modality for biometric verification performance improvement has received considerable attention. In this letter, we present an iris recognition method based on multiinstance fusion, which combines the left and right irises of an individual at the matching score level. When fusing, a novel fusion strategy using minimax probability machine (MPM) is applied to generate a fused score for the final decision. The experimental results on CASIA and UBIRIS databases show that the proposed method can bring obvious performance improvement compared with the single-instance method. The comparison among different fusion strategies demonstrates the superiority of the fusion strategy based on MPM.
文摘Multimodal biometric fusion is gaining more attention among researchers in recent days. As multimodal biometric system consolidates the information from multiple biometric sources, the effective fusion of information obtained at score level is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a framework for optimal fusion of match scores based on Gaussian Mixture Mode] (GMM) and Monte Carlo sampling based hypothesis testing. The proposed fusion approach has the ability to handle: 1) small size of match scores as is more commonly encountered in biometric fusion, and 2) arbitrary distribution of match scores which is more pronounced when discrete scores and multimodal features are present. The proposed fusion scheme is compared with well established schemes such as Likelihood Ratio (LR) method and weighted SUM rule. Extensive experiments carried out on five different multimodal biometric databases indicate that the proposed fusion scheme achieves higher performance as compared with other contemporary state of art fusion techniques.