Thursday, 8 August 2013

INFORMATION SOURCES FOR MULTIBIOMETRIC SYSTEMS

           For many applications, there are additional sources of non-biometric information that can be used for person authentication, while in others the use of a single biometric is not sufficiently secure or does not provide adequate coverage of the user population. This can be indicated by such parameter as Failure to Enroll rate. Thus, multi biometric system emerged as a way to provide more secure and reliable person authentication system under those conditions.

           It must be pointed out that in literature there is a slight difference between two terms. The term multimodal biometric system refers specifically to those biometric systems where more than one biometric modalities are used  The term multibiometric is more generic and includes multimodal systems and some other configurations using only one biometric modality with different samples instances or algorithms.                            
Information fusion can be defined as “an information process that associates, correlates and combines data and information from single or multiple sensors or sources to achieve refined estimates of parameters, characteristics, events and behaviors”. A good information fusion method allows the impact of less reliable sources be lowered compared to reliable ones. A number of disparate research areas including robotics, image processing, pattern recognition, information retrieval etc. utilize and describe information fusion in their context. Thus, information fusion established itself as an independent research area over the last decade for its impact on a vast number of disparate resear....data and feature fusion

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