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In many face recognition (FR) applications, changing capture conditions lead to divergence between facial models stored during enrollment and faces captured during operations. Moreover, it is often costly or infeasible to capture several high quality reference samples a priori to design representative facial models. Although self-updating models using high-confidence face captures appear promising,...
Aging has profound effects on facial biometrics as it causes change in shape and texture. However, aging remains an under-studied problem in comparison to facial variations due to pose, illumination and expression changes. A commonly adopted solution in the state-of-the-art is the virtual template synthesis for aging and de-aging transformations involving complex 3D modelling techniques. These methods...
Biometric-based person recognition poses a challenging problem because of large variability in biometric sample quality encountered during testing and a restricted number of enrollment samples for training. Solutions in the form of adaptive biometrics have been introduced to address this issue. These adaptive biometric systems aim to adapt enrolled templates to variations in samples observed during...
The problem of biometric menagerie, first pointed out by Doddington et al. (1998), is one that plagues all biometric systems. They observe that only a handful of clients (enrolled users in the gallery) actually contribute disproportionately to recognition errors. While prior literature attempting to reduce this effect focuses on either client-specific score normalization or client-specific decision...
Recent research in biometrics has suggested the existence of the "Biometric Menagerie" in which weak users contribute disproportionately to the error rate (FAR and FRR) of a biometric system. The aim of this work is to utilize this observation to design a multibiometric system where information is consolidated on a user-specific basis. To facilitate this, the users in a database are characterized...
Multi-biometric systems have many advantages over the uni-biometric systems. However, multi-biometric systems lacking in many respects, such as multimodal systems not only acquire relevant and viable information for fusion, but also acquire some irrelevant and redundant information which are associated to the feature sets or with the match score sets, and this may lead to the resultant performance...
This paper presents a novel face recognition technique with graph topology drawn on scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) features and is compared with all the available well known techniques on SIFT features, and elastic bunch graph matching (EBGM) technique drawn on gabor wavelet feature. IITK face database is used for evaluation purpose. Test results show that the proposed graph matching technique...
A biometric system provides poor performances when the input data exhibit intra-class variations which are not well represented by the enrolled template set. This problem has been recently faced by template update techniques. The majority of the proposed techniques can be regarded as ldquoself-updaterdquo methods, as the system updates its own templates using the recognition results provided by the...
The representativeness of a biometric template gallery to the novel data has been recently faced by proposing ldquotemplate updaterdquo algorithms that update the enrolled templates in order to capture, and represent better, the subjectpsilas intra-class variations. Majority of the proposed approaches have adopted ldquoselfrdquo update technique, in which the system updates itself using its own knowledge...
The aim of this paper is to study the fusion at feature extraction level for face and fingerprint biometrics. The proposed approach is based on the fusion of the two traits by extracting independent feature pointsets from the two modalities, and making the two pointsets compatible for concatenation. Moreover, to handle the `problem of curse of dimensionality', the feature pointsets are properly reduced...
This paper proposes a procedure for facial template synthesis based on features extracted from multiple facial instances with varying pose. The proposed system extracts the rotation, scale and translation invariant SIFT features, also having high discrimination ability, from the frontal and half left and right profiles of an individual face images. These affine invariant features obviate the need...
This paper presents a new face identification system based on graph matching technique on SIFT features extracted from face images. Although SIFT features have been successfully used for general object detection and recognition, only recently they were applied to face recognition. This paper further investigates the performance of identification techniques based on Graph matching topology drawn on...
This paper proposes a robust feature level based fusion classifier for face and fingerprint biometrics. The proposed system fuses the two traits at feature extraction level by first making the feature sets compatible for concatenation and then reducing the feature sets to handle the 'problem of curse of dimensionality'; finally the concatenated feature vectors are matched. The system is tested on...
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