MYIDEA - MULTIMODAL BIOMETRICS DATABASE, DESCRIPTION OF ACQUISITION PROTOCOLS

This document describes the acquisition protocols of MyIDea, a new large and realistic multimodal biometric database designed to conduct research experiments in Identity Verification (IV). The key points of MyIDea are threefold: (1) it is strongly multimodal; (2) it implements realistic scenarios in an open-set framework; (3) it uses sensors of different quality to record most of the modalities. The combination of these three points makes MyIDea novel and pretty unique in comparison to existing databases. Furthermore, special care is put in the design of the acquisition procedures to allow MyIDea to complement existing databases such as BANCA, MCYT or BIOMET. MyIDea includes talking face, audio, fingerprints, signature, handwriting and hand geometry. MyIDea will be available early 2006 with an initial set of 104 subjects recorded over three sessions. Other recording sets will be potentially planned in 2006.