A two-level fusion approach to multimodal biometric verification

Ming Cheung Cheung, Man Wai Mak, Sun Yuan Kung

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Abstract

This paper proposes a two-level fusion strategy for audio-visual biometric authentication. Specifically, fusion is performed at two levels: intramodal and intermodal. In intramodal fusion, the scores of multiple samples (e.g. utterances or video shots) obtained from the same modality are linearly combined, where the combination weights depend on the difference between the score values and a client-dependent reference score obtained during enrollment. This is followed by intermodal fusion in which the means of intramodal fused scores obtained from different modalities are either linearly combined or fused by a support vector machine (SVM). Experimental results based on the XM2VTSDB corpus show that intramodal and intermodal fusion are complementary to each other and that SVM-based intermodal fusion is superior to linear combination.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2005 IEEE ICASSP '05 - Proc. - Design and Implementation of Signal Proces.Syst.,Indust. Technol. Track,Machine Learning for Signal Proces. Education, Spec. Sessions
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
PagesV485-V488
ISBN (Print)0780388747, 9780780388741
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Event2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '05 - Philadelphia, PA, United States
Duration: Mar 18 2005Mar 23 2005

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
VolumeV
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '05
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhiladelphia, PA
Period3/18/053/23/05

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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