Master Thesis - Department of Computer Science
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algebraic methods for point pattern matching. The Hough transform-based approach<br />
[7] converts point pattern matching to the problem <strong>of</strong> detecting peaks in the Hough<br />
space <strong>of</strong> transformation parameters.<br />
Ratha et al. [102] proposed a Hough transform-based minutiae matching ap-<br />
proach where the transformation parameters are displacement, rotation, and scale.<br />
Two quite atypical fingerprint matching approaches, classifiable as local minutiae<br />
matching, have been introduced by Maio and Maltoni [81] and by Kovacs-Vajna [64].<br />
Both these techniques operate asymmetrically. Fingerprint enhancement and accu-<br />
rate minutiae extraction are performed only on the template fingerprint at enrollment<br />
time, resulting in the minutiae set T. During testing, the existence <strong>of</strong> a correspon-<br />
dence for each minutia in T is checked by locally searching the input fingerprint.<br />
2.3 Recent Approaches to Multiple Classifier Combination<br />
In real-world applications, some limits <strong>of</strong> monomodal biometric systems have already<br />
been reported. Indeed some biometrics have only little variation over the population,<br />
have large intra-class variability over time, or/and are not present in all the popula-<br />
tion. To fill these gaps, the use <strong>of</strong> multimodal biometrics is a first choice solution.<br />
Multimodal biometric systems increase robustness and are more reliable. Multimodal<br />
approaches provide appropriate measures to resist against spo<strong>of</strong> attacks, as it is dif-<br />
ficult to counterfeit several modalities at the same time, to circumvent a system.<br />
They also provide an adopted solution to the limitations <strong>of</strong> universality, as even if a<br />
biometrics is not possessed by a person, the other(s) modality(ies) can still be used.<br />
Multimodal biometric systems that have been proposed in literature can be classi-<br />
fied based on four main parameters: (1) Architecture or operational mode, (2) Fusion<br />
scenarios, (3) Level <strong>of</strong> fusion and (4) Methods for integrating multiple cues.<br />
2.3.1 Architecture or Operational Mode<br />
Architecture <strong>of</strong> multimodal biometric system refers to the sequence in which the<br />
multiple cue are acquired and processed. Multimodal biometric systems can operate<br />
in three different modes: (a) Parallel, (b) Serial and (c) Hierarchical (see in Fig. 2.9).<br />
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