Credence estimation and error prediction in biometric identity verification

Signal Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 916-925

  Kryszczuk, Krzysztof ^a   Drygajlo, Andrzej ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biometric identity verification; Credence; Error handling; Statistical pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION MAKING; ERROR DETECTION; VERIFICATION;

BIOMETRIC IDENTITY VERIFICATION; ERROR HANDLING; QUALITY MEASURES;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 37649008056     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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