Boosting approach for score level fusion in multimodal biometrics based on AUC maximization

Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-59

  Parviz, Mehdi ^a   Shahram Moin, M ^a  

^a IRAN TELECOMMUNICATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Iran)

Author keywords

Auc; Biometrics; Boosting; Multimodal

Indexed keywords

AUC; AUC MAXIMIZATIONS; BOOSTING; BOOSTING APPROACH; MULTI-MODAL; MULTI-MODAL BIOMETRICS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; SCORE-LEVEL FUSION;

BIOMETRICS;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING;

EID: 79960784284     PISSN: 20734212     EISSN: 20734239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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