An Overview on Multi-biometric Score-level Fusion - Verification and Identification

Multi-biometrics is the use of multiple biometric recognition sources to provide a more dependable verification or identification decision. Fusion of multi-biometric sources can be performed on different levels, such as the data, feature, or score level. This work presents an overview of the multi-biometric score-level fusion problem, along with the proposed solution in the literature. A discussion is made to provide a comparison between multi-biometric fusion in both scenarios. This discussion aims at providing a clearer view of future developments especially under the identification scenario where many related applications are rapidly growing such as forensics and ubiquitous surveillance.

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