Threshold-optimized decision-level fusion and its application to biometrics

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 823-836

  Tao, Qian ^a   Veldhuis, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision level; Fusion; Matching score level; Threshold optimized decision level fusion

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; OPERATING ROOMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

2D TEXTURES; 3D SHAPES; BIOMETRIC VERIFICATIONS; COMPONENT CLASSIFIERS; DECISION FUSIONS; DECISION LEVEL; FRGC DATABASES; FUSION; FUSION EXPERIMENTS; FUSION SCHEMES; MATCHING SCORE LEVEL; OPTIMAL FUSIONS; OPTIMIZING MATCHING; OUT-LIERS; SYSTEM PERFORMANCES; THRESHOLD-OPTIMIZED DECISION-LEVEL FUSION;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 58249083989     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.09.036     Document Type: Article

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