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Likelihood Ratio-Based Biometric Score Fusion

01 Feb 2008-IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE Computer Society)-Vol. 30, Iss: 2, pp 342-347
TL;DR: Experiments on three multibiometric databases indicate that the proposed fusion framework achieves consistently high performance compared to commonly used score fusion techniques based on score transformation and classification.
Abstract: Multibiometric systems fuse information from different sources to compensate for the limitations in performance of individual matchers. We propose a framework for the optimal combination of match scores that is based on the likelihood ratio test. The distributions of genuine and impostor match scores are modeled as finite Gaussian mixture model. The proposed fusion approach is general in its ability to handle 1) discrete values in biometric match score distributions, 2) arbitrary scales and distributions of match scores, 3) correlation between the scores of multiple matchers, and 4) sample quality of multiple biometric sources. Experiments on three multibiometric databases indicate that the proposed fusion framework achieves consistently high performance compared to commonly used score fusion techniques based on score transformation and classification.

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20 Apr 2009
TL;DR: This book and the accompanying website, focus on template matching, a subset of object recognition techniques of wide applicability, which has proved to be particularly effective for face recognition applications.
Abstract: The detection and recognition of objects in images is a key research topic in the computer vision community Within this area, face recognition and interpretation has attracted increasing attention owing to the possibility of unveiling human perception mechanisms, and for the development of practical biometric systems This book and the accompanying website, focus on template matching, a subset of object recognition techniques of wide applicability, which has proved to be particularly effective for face recognition applications Using examples from face processing tasks throughout the book to illustrate more general object recognition approaches, Roberto Brunelli: examines the basics of digital image formation, highlighting points critical to the task of template matching; presents basic and advanced template matching techniques, targeting grey-level images, shapes and point sets; discusses recent pattern classification paradigms from a template matching perspective; illustrates the development of a real face recognition system; explores the use of advanced computer graphics techniques in the development of computer vision algorithms Template Matching Techniques in Computer Vision is primarily aimed at practitioners working on the development of systems for effective object recognition such as biometrics, robot navigation, multimedia retrieval and landmark detection It is also of interest to graduate students undertaking studies in these areas

721 citations

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TL;DR: A new approach to improve the performance of finger-vein identification systems presented in the literature is presented and two new score-level combinations are developed and investigated, i.e., holistic and nonlinear fusion.
Abstract: This paper presents a new approach to improve the performance of finger-vein identification systems presented in the literature. The proposed system simultaneously acquires the finger-vein and low-resolution fingerprint images and combines these two evidences using a novel score-level combination strategy. We examine the previously proposed finger-vein identification approaches and develop a new approach that illustrates it superiority over prior published efforts. The utility of low-resolution fingerprint images acquired from a webcam is examined to ascertain the matching performance from such images. We develop and investigate two new score-level combinations, i.e., holistic and nonlinear fusion, and comparatively evaluate them with more popular score-level fusion approaches to ascertain their effectiveness in the proposed system. The rigorous experimental results presented on the database of 6264 images from 156 subjects illustrate significant improvement in the performance, i.e., both from the authentication and recognition experiments.

531 citations


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  • ...The estimation of score densities can be efficiently achieved using Gaussian mixture models (GMMs), and such an approach has shown [40] to offer superior performance than several fixed combination approaches....

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  • ...The results from the likelihood-ratio fusion [40] scheme have not been promising, and this could be attributed to several reasons....

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27 Mar 2009

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TL;DR: A framework for empirical evaluation of classifier security that formalizes and generalizes the main ideas proposed in the literature, and given examples of its use in three real applications show that security evaluation can provide a more complete understanding of the classifier's behavior in adversarial environments, and lead to better design choices.
Abstract: Pattern classification systems are commonly used in adversarial applications, like biometric authentication, network intrusion detection, and spam filtering, in which data can be purposely manipulated by humans to undermine their operation. As this adversarial scenario is not taken into account by classical design methods, pattern classification systems may exhibit vulnerabilities, whose exploitation may severely affect their performance, and consequently limit their practical utility. Extending pattern classification theory and design methods to adversarial settings is thus a novel and very relevant research direction, which has not yet been pursued in a systematic way. In this paper, we address one of the main open issues: evaluating at design phase the security of pattern classifiers, namely, the performance degradation under potential attacks they may incur during operation. We propose a framework for empirical evaluation of classifier security that formalizes and generalizes the main ideas proposed in the literature, and give examples of its use in three real applications. Reported results show that security evaluation can provide a more complete understanding of the classifier's behavior in adversarial environments, and lead to better design choices.

374 citations


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  • ...As in [1], [2], we consider the widely used likelihood ratio (LLR) score fusion rule [46], and the matching scores as its features....

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TL;DR: It is suggested that the performance from the Haar wavelet and Log-Gabor filter based phase encoding is the most promising among all the four approaches considered in this work and the combination of these two matchers is most promising, both in terms of performance and the computational complexity.

348 citations


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  • ...The score-level combination offers best trade-off in terms of information content and ease in fusion [32]....

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  • ...This research was supported by US Army Research Office contract W911NF-06-1-0418....

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TL;DR: The novelty of the approach is that it does not use a model selection criterion to choose one among a set of preestimated candidate models; instead, it seamlessly integrate estimation and model selection in a single algorithm.
Abstract: This paper proposes an unsupervised algorithm for learning a finite mixture model from multivariate data. The adjective "unsupervised" is justified by two properties of the algorithm: 1) it is capable of selecting the number of components and 2) unlike the standard expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, it does not require careful initialization. The proposed method also avoids another drawback of EM for mixture fitting: the possibility of convergence toward a singular estimate at the boundary of the parameter space. The novelty of our approach is that we do not use a model selection criterion to choose one among a set of preestimated candidate models; instead, we seamlessly integrate estimation and model selection in a single algorithm. Our technique can be applied to any type of parametric mixture model for which it is possible to write an EM algorithm; in this paper, we illustrate it with experiments involving Gaussian mixtures. These experiments testify for the good performance of our approach.

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  • ...The GMM fitting algorithm proposed in [16]1 automatically estimates the number of components and the component parameters using an EM algorithm and the minimum message length criterion....

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TL;DR: Study of the performance of different normalization techniques and fusion rules in the context of a multimodal biometric system based on the face, fingerprint and hand-geometry traits of a user found that the application of min-max, z-score, and tanh normalization schemes followed by a simple sum of scores fusion method results in better recognition performance compared to other methods.

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