Database, protocols and tools for evaluating score-level fusion algorithms in biometric authentication

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 223-233

  Poh, Norman ^a   Bengio, Samy ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Benchmark; Biometrics authentication; Pattern recognition; Score level fusion

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS AUTHENTICATION; SCORE-LEVEL FUSION;

BENCHMARKING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 27744526744     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2005.06.011     Document Type: Article

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