Quality-based score normalization with device qualitative information for multimodal biometric fusion

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 539-554

  Poh, Norman ^a   Kittler, Josef ^a   Bourlai, Thirimachos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multimodal biometrics; Person authentication; Quality based fusion; Score normalization

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION DEVICE; BIOMETRIC DATA; BIOMETRIC DEVICE; BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS; BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY; DATA SETS; DEVICE INFORMATION; DIRECT MODELING; FALSE ACCEPTANCE; FALSE REJECTION RATE; MULTI-MODAL BIOMETRICS; MULTI-MODAL FUSION; NAIVE BAYES; PERSON AUTHENTICATION; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION; QUALITY INFORMATION; QUALITY MEASURES; SCORE NORMALIZATION; SUB-PROBLEMS;

AUTHENTICATION; DEGRADATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 77951208139     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2041660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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