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 in dimension. Different feature reduction techniques are implemented, prior and after the feature pointsets fusion, and the results are duly recorded. The fused feature pointset for the database and the query face and fingerprint images are matched using techniques based on either the point pattern matching, or the Delaunay triangulation. Comparative experiments are conducted on chimeric and real databases, to assess the actual advantage of the fusion performed at the feature extraction level, in comparison to the matching score level.

Feature Level Fusion of Face and Fingerprint Biometrics / A., Rattani; D. R., Kisku; M., Bicego; Tistarelli, Massimo. - (2007), pp. 1-6. (Intervento presentato al convegno first IEEE Int.l Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 07 tenutosi a Washington DC nel Settembre 2007) [10.1109/BTAS.2007.4401919].

Feature Level Fusion of Face and Fingerprint Biometrics

TISTARELLI, Massimo
2007-01-01

Abstract

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 in dimension. Different feature reduction techniques are implemented, prior and after the feature pointsets fusion, and the results are duly recorded. The fused feature pointset for the database and the query face and fingerprint images are matched using techniques based on either the point pattern matching, or the Delaunay triangulation. Comparative experiments are conducted on chimeric and real databases, to assess the actual advantage of the fusion performed at the feature extraction level, in comparison to the matching score level.
2007
978-1-4244-1597-7
Feature Level Fusion of Face and Fingerprint Biometrics / A., Rattani; D. R., Kisku; M., Bicego; Tistarelli, Massimo. - (2007), pp. 1-6. (Intervento presentato al convegno first IEEE Int.l Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 07 tenutosi a Washington DC nel Settembre 2007) [10.1109/BTAS.2007.4401919].
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