Use of identification trial statistics for the combination of biometrie matchers

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 719-733

  Tulyakov, Sergey ^a   Govindaraju, Venu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biometric identification systems; Combination of classifiers

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; COMBINATION METHODS; COMBINATION OF CLASSIFIERS; INPUT PARAMETERS; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; MATCHING SCORES; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGIES; PERSON IDENTIFICATIONS; WEIGHTED SUMS;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 56749164634     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2008.2004287     Document Type: Article

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