A Unified framework for biometric expert fusion incorporating quality measures

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-18

  Poh, Norman ^a   Kittler, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

information fusion; Multimodal biometric authentication; quality based fusion

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; FUSION ALGORITHMS; FUSION CLASSIFIERS; MULTI-MODAL BIOMETRICS; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER COMBINATION; QUALITY INFORMATION; QUALITY MEASURES; SAMPLE QUALITY; STATE OF THE ART; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION FUSION;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 81855205046     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2011.102     Document Type: Article

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