Abstract
The aim of this paper, regarding multimodal biometric verification, is twofold: on the one hand, some score fusion strategies reported in the literature are reviewed and, on the other hand, we compare experimentally a selection of them using as monomodal baseline experts: i) our face verification system based on a global face appearance representation scheme, ii) our minutiaebased fingerprint verification system, and iii) our on-line signature verification system based on HMM modeling of temporal functions, on the MCYT multimodal database. A new strategy is also proposed and discussed in order to generate a multimodal combined score by means of Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers from which user-independent and user-dependent fusion schemes are derived and evaluated.
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Fierrez-Aguilar, J., Ortega-Garcia, J., Garcia-Romero, D., Gonzalez-Rodriguez, J. (2003). A Comparative Evaluation of Fusion Strategies for Multimodal Biometric Verification. In: Kittler, J., Nixon, M.S. (eds) Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication. AVBPA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2688. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44887-X_96
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