Challenges and Research Directions for Adaptive Biometric Recognition Systems

  • Authors:
  • Norman Poh;Rita Wong;Josef Kittler;Fabio Roli

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK GU2 7XH;University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK GU2 7XH;University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK GU2 7XH;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari Piazza d'Armi, Cagliari, Italy 09123

  • Venue:
  • ICB '09 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Biometrics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Biometric authentication using mobile devices is becoming a convenient and important means to secure access to remote services such as telebanking and electronic transactions. Such an application poses a very challenging pattern recognition problem: the training samples are often sparse and they cannot represent the biometrics of a person. The query features are easily affected by the acquisition environment, the user's accessories, occlusions and aging. Semi-supervised learning --- learning from the query/test data --- can be a means to tap the vast unlabeled training data. While there is evidence that semi-supervised learning can work in text categorization and biometrics, its application on mobile devices remains a great challenge. As a preliminary, yet, indispensable study towards the goal of semi-supervised learning, we analyze the following sub-problems: model adaptation, update criteria, inference with several models and user-specific time-dependent performance assessment, and explore possible solutions and research directions.