On consistent fusion of multimodal biometrics

S. Y. Kung, Man Wai Mak

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Abstract

Audio-visual (AV) biometrics offer complementary information sources, and the use of both voice and facial images for biometric authentication has recently become economically feasible. Therefore, multi-modality adaptive fusion, combining audio and visual information, offers an efficient tool for substantially improving the classification performance. In terms of implementation, we propose to integrate an audio classifier (based on Gaussian mixture models) and a visual classifier (based on FaceIT, a commercially available software) into a well-established mixture-of-expert fusion architecture. In addition, a consistent fusion strategy is introduced as a baseline fusion scheme, which establishes the lower bound of the "consistent region" in the FAR-FRR ROC. Our simulation results indicate that the prediction performance of the proposed adaptive fusion schemes fall in the consistent region. More importantly, the notion of consistent fusion can also facilitate the selection of the best modalities to fuse.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - Proceedings
PagesV1085-V1088
StatePublished - 2006
Event2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2006 - Toulouse, France
Duration: May 14 2006May 19 2006

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume5
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2006
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityToulouse
Period5/14/065/19/06

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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