Bag of soft biometrics for person identification

  • Authors:
  • Antitza Dantcheva;Carmelo Velardo;Angela D'Angelo;Jean-Luc Dugelay

  • Affiliations:
  • EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France;EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France;EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France;EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France

  • Venue:
  • Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this work we seek to provide insight on the general topic of soft biometrics. We firstly present a new refined definition of soft biometrics, emphasizing on the aspect of human compliance, and then proceed to identify candidate traits that accept this novel definition. We then address relations between traits and discuss associated benefits and limitations of these traits. We also consider two novel soft biometric traits, namely weight and color of clothes and we analyze their reliability. Related promising results on the performance are provided. Finally, we consider a new application, namely human identification solely carried out by a bag of facial, body and accessory soft biometric traits, and as an evidence of its practicality, we provide preliminary promising results.