Improving biometric verification systems by fusing Z-norm and F-norm

  • Authors:
  • Messaoud Bengherabi;Farid Harizi;Norman Poh;Elhocine Boutellaa;Abderrazek Guessoum;Mohamed Cheriet

  • Affiliations:
  • Division ASM, Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées, Algeria;Division ASM, Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées, Algeria;University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK;Division ASM, Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées, Algeria;Université Saad Dahleb de Blida, Blida, Algeria;École de Technologies Supérieure Montréal, Québec, Canada

  • Venue:
  • CCBR'12 Proceedings of the 7th Chinese conference on Biometric Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

User-specific score normalization which is related to biometric menagerie has received a lot of attention in the last decade. It is a one-to-one mapping function such that after its application, only a global threshold is needed. In this paper we propose a novel user-specific score normalization framework based on the fusion of Z-norm and F-norm. In this framework, firstly one post-processes the biometric system scores with Z-norm and F-norm procedures. Then, one feeds the resulting two dimensional normalized score vector to a fusion classifier to obtain a final normalized score. Using logistic regression as a fusion classifier, experiments carried out on 13 face and speech systems of the XM2VTS database show that the proposed strategy is likely to improve over the original separate score normalization schemes (F-norm or Z-norm). Furthermore, this novel strategy turns out to be the best strategy for applications requiring low false acceptance rate.