Fusing multimodal biometrics with quality estimates via a Bayesian belief network

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 821-832

  Maurer, Donald E ^a   Baker, John P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian belief networks; Biometrics; Fingerprint match scores; Information fusion; Multimodal biometrics; Voice match scores

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BIOMETRICS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION MAKING; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

FINGERPRINT MATCH SCORES; MULTIMODAL BIOMETRICS; VOICE MATCH SCORES;

INFORMATION FUSION;

EID: 35448943582     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.08.008     Document Type: Article

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