Score calibration for optimal biometric identification

  • Authors:
  • Dmitry O. Gorodnichy;Richard Hoshino

  • Affiliations:
  • Science and Engineering Directorate, Canada Border Services Agency, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;Science and Engineering Directorate, Canada Border Services Agency, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  • Venue:
  • AI'10 Proceedings of the 23rd Canadian conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a calibration algorithm that converts biometric matching scores into probability-based confidence scores Using the context of iris biometrics, we show – theoretically and by experiments – that in addition to attaching a meaningful confidence measure to the output, this calibration technique yields the best possible detection error trade-off (DET) curves, both at the score level and at the decision level, thus maximizing the overall performance of the biometric system.