An enhanced biometric score fusion scheme based on the AdaBoost algorithm

Abstract

Information fusion in biometric systems, either multimodal or intramodal fusion, usually provides an improvement in recognition performance. This paper presents a novel score-level fusion scheme called boosted score fusion. The proposed framework is a two-stage design where an existing fusion algorithm is adopted at the first stage. At the second stage, the weights obtained by the AdaBoost algorithm are utilized to boost the performance of the previously fused results. The experimental results demonstrate that the performance of several score-level fusion methods can be improved by using the presented method.