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Master Thesis - Department of Computer Science

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List <strong>of</strong> Figures<br />

2.1 Summary <strong>of</strong> approaches to face recognition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

2.2 The concept <strong>of</strong> PCA. (a) Solid lines: The original basis; Dashed lines:<br />

The PCA basis; Geometric interpretation <strong>of</strong> principal eigenvectors il-<br />

lustrated in 2D space. (b) The projection (1D reconstruction) <strong>of</strong> the<br />

data using the first principal component. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />

2.3 An example <strong>of</strong> PCA and LDA projection for a two class problem. . . 15<br />

2.4 (a) Decomposition <strong>of</strong> R M into the principal subspace F and its or-<br />

thogonal component ¯ F for a Gaussian density. (b) A typical eigenvalue<br />

spectrum and its division into the two orthogonal subspaces. . . . . 17<br />

2.5 A fingerprint image with the core and four minutiae points marked on<br />

it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25<br />

2.6 (a) and (c) are Input Images; (b) and (d) are enhanced recoverable<br />

regions superimposed on corresponding input images. . . . . . . . . . 28<br />

2.7 Examples <strong>of</strong> minutiae; A minutia can be characterized by position and<br />

orientation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />

2.8 (a) Intra-ridge pixel; (b) Termination minutia; (c) Bifurcation minutia 30<br />

2.9 Different architectures <strong>of</strong> multimodal biometric system; (a) Parallel,<br />

(b) Serial and (c) Hierarchical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />

2.10 Sources <strong>of</strong> multiple evidence in multimodal biometrics. . . . . . . . . 36<br />

2.11 Summary <strong>of</strong> approaches to information fusion in biometric systems. . 37<br />

2.12 Operation <strong>of</strong> class-conscious methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42<br />

2.13 Operation <strong>of</strong> class-indifferent methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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