EER of fixed and trainable fusion classifiers: A theoretical study with application to biometric authentication tasks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3541, Issue , 2005, Pages 74-85

  Poh, Norman ^a   Bengio, Samy ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION;

BASE-SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; EQUAL ERROR RATE (EER);

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 26444473612     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11494683_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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