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Increasing risks of spoof attacks, intra-class variations, non-universality and noisy data are common challenges faced by any unimodal biometric system to provide most accurate system. These challenges can be minimized if two or more biometric modalities are used for authentication. Like other traits, there exist a number of multimodal approaches which fuse ear with other biometric modalities such as face, speech etc. in the literature. The fusion has been performed both in 2D as well as in 3D ear biometrics. This chapter presents different techniques where fusion takes place at various levels such as score, decision etc.
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Prakash, S., Gupta, P. (2015). Fusion of Ear with Other Traits. In: Ear Biometrics in 2D and 3D. Augmented Vision and Reality, vol 10. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-375-0_6
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