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Master Thesis - Department of Computer Science

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• Spo<strong>of</strong> Attacks: An impostor may attempt to spo<strong>of</strong> the biometric trait <strong>of</strong> a<br />

legitimate enrolled user in order to circumvent the system. This type <strong>of</strong> attacks<br />

are well-known in case <strong>of</strong> behavioral traits like signature and voice. Even it is<br />

possible to construct dummy fingers using lifted fingerprint impressions.<br />

Multimodal biometry solves the above defined problems by combining the evidences<br />

obtained from different modalities with the help <strong>of</strong> an effective fusion scheme. An<br />

alternate use <strong>of</strong> multimodal biometry is to perform a search in an efficient and faster<br />

way by using a relatively simple and less accurate modality to prune the database be-<br />

fore using the more complex and accurate modality on the remaining data to generate<br />

the final decision.<br />

There are, however, a few disadvantages <strong>of</strong> using a multimodal biometric sys-<br />

tem. First, a multimodal biometric system is more expensive and requires more<br />

computational and storage resources than a unimodal system. Second, multimodal<br />

systems generally require more time for enrollment and verification, causing some<br />

inconveniences to the user. Furthermore, if the multiple modalities are not properly<br />

combined, the combination may actually degrade a system accuracy.<br />

1.3 Brief Description <strong>of</strong> the Work Done<br />

The contribution <strong>of</strong> the work presented in this thesis comes in terms <strong>of</strong> three novel face<br />

recognition approaches and one decision fusion technique for combining information<br />

from face and fingerprint classifiers for multimodal biometry.<br />

• Among three face recognition approaches, the first approach presents an effi-<br />

cient method for frontal face recognition, using subject-specific subband face<br />

representation. The human face has certain visual features that are common<br />

among everybody and some others that exhibit the unique characteristics <strong>of</strong><br />

an individual. Using the discrete wavelet transform (DWT), we extract these<br />

unique features from the face image for discriminating it from others. The<br />

face image is decomposed into several subbands to separate the common (ap-<br />

proximation) and discriminatory (detail) parts. Subband face is reconstructed<br />

from selected wavelet subbands, in which a suitable approximation subband is<br />

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