Decision is the output result of a biometric system given a biometric sample. For a verification task, the decision is “reject or accept” of the claimed identity, while for identification task it is the identity of the presented subject or rejecting him or her as one of the enrolled subject.
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(2009). Decision. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_801
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