Robust memory-efficient data level information fusion of multi-modal biometric images

Information Fusion

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 337-346

  Noore, Afzel ^a   Singh, Richa ^a   Vatsa, Mayank ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biometric information fusion; Identity verification; Multi modal biometrics; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRICS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VERIFICATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ERROR RATE; IDENTITY VERIFICATION; MULTI MODAL BIOMETRICS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

INFORMATION FUSION;

EID: 34249656752     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2005.09.005     Document Type: Article

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