Performance evaluation of score level fusion in multimodal biometric systems

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1789-1800

  He, Mingxing ^a   Horng, Shi Jinn ^a,b,c,f   Fan, Pingzhi ^c   Run, Ray Shine ^d   Chen, Rong Jian ^d   Lai, Jui Lin ^d   Khan, Muhammad Khurram ^e   Sentosa, Kevin Octavius ^b  

^a XIHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multimodal biometrics; Normalization; Score level fusion; Sum rule; Support vector machines; Verification

Indexed keywords

FINGER VEIN; FUSION METHODS; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; MATCHING SCORE; MIN-MAX; MULTI-MODAL BIOMETRICS; MULTIMODAL BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS; MULTIMODAL DATABASE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; ROBUST NORMALIZATION; SCORE-LEVEL FUSION; SUM RULE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 75749111589     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.11.018     Document Type: Article

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