Title
A Gradient Descent Approach for Multi-modal Biometric Identification
Abstract
While biometrics-based identification is a key technology in many critical applications such as searching for an identity in a watch list or checking for duplicates in a citizen ID card system, there are many technical challenges in building a solution because the size of the database can be very large (often in 100s of millions) and the intrinsic errors with the underlying biometrics engines. Often multi-modal biometrics is proposed as a way to improve the underlying biometrics accuracy performance. In this paper, we propose a score based fusion scheme tailored for identification applications. The proposed algorithm uses a gradient descent method to learn weights for each modality such that weighted sum of genuine scores is larger than the weighted sum of all the impostor scores. During the identification phase, top K candidates from each modality are retrieved and a super-set of identities is constructed. Using the learnt weights, we compute the weighted score for all the candidates in the superset. The highest scoring candidate is declared as the top candidate for identification. The proposed algorithm has been tested using NIST BSSR-1 dataset and results in terms of accuracy as well as the speed (execution time) are shown to be far superior than the published results on this dataset.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ICPR.2010.329
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
biometrics (access control),gradient methods,image fusion,image recognition,NIST BSSR-1 dataset,a score based fusion scheme,citizen ID card system,gradient descent approach,multimodal biometric identification
Data mining,Gradient descent,Subset and superset,Image fusion,Pattern recognition,Computer science,NIST,Artificial intelligence,Execution time,Biometrics,Fusion scheme,Modal
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1051-4651
978-1-4244-7542-1
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jayanta Basak137232.68
Kiran Kate230.44
Vivek Tyagi3888.35
Nalini K. Ratha4109093.04