Guide to Biometric Reference Systems and Performance Evaluation

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Contributors

Acronyms

Symbols

Introduction—About the Need of an Evaluation Framework in Biometrics

1.1 Reference Software

1.2 Biometrics

1.3 Databases

1.4 Risks

1.5 Biometric “Menagerie&rdquo

1.6 Spoofing

1.7 Evaluation

1.8 Evaluation Campaigns

1.9 Outline of This Book

Acknowledgments

References

The BioSecure Benchmarking Methodology for Biometric Performance Evaluation

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Terminology

2.3 Description of the Proposed Evaluation Framework

2.4 Use of the Benchmarking Packages

2.5 Conclusions

References

Iris Recognition

3.1 Introduction

3.2 State of the Art in Iris Recognition

3.3 Current Issues and Challenges

3.4 Existing Evaluation Databases, Campaigns and Open- source Software

3.5 The BioSecure Evaluation Framework for Iris

3.6 Research Systems Evaluated within the Benchmarking Framework

3.7 Fusion Experiments

3.8 Conclusions

References

Fingerprint Recognition

4.1 Introduction

4.2 State of the Art in Fingerprint Recognition

4.3 Fingerprint Databases

4.4 Fingerprint Evaluation Campaigns

4.5 The BioSecure Benchmarking Framework

4.6 Research Algorithms Evaluated within the Benchmarking Framework

4.7 Experimental Results within the Benchmarking Framework

4.8 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Hand Recognition

5.1 Introduction

5.2 State of the Art in Hand Recognition

5.3 The BioSecure Evaluation Framework for Hand Recognition

5.4 More Experimental Results with the Reference System

5.5 Appearance-Based Hand Recognition System [BU]

5.6 Conclusions

References

Online Handwritten Signature Verification

6.1 Introduction

6.2 State of the Art in Signature Verification

6.3 Databases

6.4 Evaluation Campaigns

6.5 The BioSecure Benchmarking Framework for Signature Verification

6.6 Research Algorithms Evaluated within the Benchmarking Framework

6.7 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Text-independent Speaker Verification

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Review of Text-independent Speaker Verification

7.3 Speaker Verification Evaluation Campaigns and Databases

7.4 The BioSecure Speaker Verification Benchmarking Framework

7.5 How to Reach State-of-the-art Speaker Verification Performance Using Open Source Software

7.6 Conclusions and Perspectives

Acknowledgments

References

2D Face Recognition

8.1 State of the Art in Face Recognition: Selected Topics

8.2 2D Face Databases and Evaluation Campaigns

8.3 The BioSecure Benchmarking Framework for 2D Face

8.4 Method 1: Combining Gabor Magnitude and Phase Information [ TELECOM SudParis]

8.5 Method 2: Subject-Specific Face Verification via Shape- Driven Gabor Jets ( SDGJ) [ University of Vigo]

8.6 Method 3: SIFT-based Face Recognition with Graph Matching [ UNISS]

8.7 Comparison of the Presented Approaches

8.8 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

3D Face Recognition

9.1 Introduction

9.2 State of the Art in 3D Face Recognition

9.3 3D Face Databases and Evaluation Campaigns

9.4 Benchmarking Framework for 3D Face Recognition

9.5 More Experimental Results with the 3D Reference System

9.6 Conclusions

References

Talking-face Verification

10.1 Introduction

10.2 State of the Art in Talking-face Verification

10.3 Evaluation Framework

10.4 Research Systems

10.5 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

BioSecure Multimodal Evaluation Campaign 2007 ( BMEC’ 2007)

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Scientific Objectives

11.3 Existing Multimodal Databases

11.4 BMEC Database

11.5 Performance Evaluation

11.6 Experimental Results

11.7 Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Appendix

11.8 Equal Error Rate

11.9 Parametric Confidence Intervals

11.10 Participants

References

Index