An Empirical Study on Verifier Order Selection in Serial Fusion Based Multi-biometric Verification System

• Published in: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice pp. 249 - 258
• Main Authors: Hossain, Md Shafaeat, Rahman, Khandaker Abir
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Multi-biometric verification; Serial fusion; Verifier order selection
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60042-0_29
• ISBN: 9783319600413; 3319600419
• ISSN: 0302-9743

Selecting the order of verifier in a serial fusion based multi-biometric system is a crucial parameter to fix because of its high impact on verification errors. A wrong choice of verifier order might lead to tremendous user inconvenience by denying a large number of genuine users and might cause severe security breach by accepting impostors frequently. Unfortunately, this design issue has been poorly investigated in multi-biometric literature. In this paper, we address this design issue by performing experiments using three different serial fusion based multi-biometric verification schemes, in particular (1) symmetric scheme, (2) SPRT-based scheme, and (3) Marcialis et al.’s scheme. We experimented on publicly available NIST-BSSR1 multi-modal database. We tested 24 orders—all possible orders originated from four individual verifiers—on a four-stage biometric verification system. Our experimental results show that the verifier order “best-to-worst”, where the best performing individual verifier is placed in the first stage, the next best performing individual verifier is placed in the second stage, and so on, is the top performing order for all three serial fusion schemes mentioned above.