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Multimodal person authentication system using features of utterance


Abstract:

In this paper, we propose a multimodal biometrics authentication method using features of an utterance. The proposed authentication method authenticates persons using ima...Show More

Abstract:

In this paper, we propose a multimodal biometrics authentication method using features of an utterance. The proposed authentication method authenticates persons using image and voice signals. Hence, the proposed method can be realized with only a camera and microphone to extract the lip area and voice without the special equipment used in other personal authentication methods and can easily change the registration data. Moreover, the proposed authentication method can provide a key function to the registered phrase of the utterance. In the proposed method, the edges and texture in the mouth are used as image features, and pitch and spectrum envelope are used as voice features. Authentication is realized by classifiers generated by AdaBoost, classifiers are generated for the voice- and image-processing parts. Moreover, each classifier is weighted according to the corresponding confidence and then the final authentication score is calculated. Hence, the proposed method can provide valid authentication results in various environments. Experimental results demonstrate that multimodal processing in the proposed method is more effective than monomodal (only image or voice) processing.
Date of Conference: 04-07 November 2012
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 07 March 2013
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Conference Location: Tamsui, Taiwan

I. Introduction

Recently, the increase in the amount of information leakage and the number of incidents of theft by electronic trespassing has led to the need for enhanced security and improved convenience [1]–[3]. With this background, biometrics authentication technologies that use a physiological and/or behavioral trait have been studied at various research institutions. A physiological trait is related to human being original peculiar characteristics, such as the fingerprints, iris, palm form, ear form, and face. On the other hand, a behavioral trait is a behavioral characteristics, such as voiceprint, signature, and keystroke. These characteristics have both advantages and disadvantages, as well as a trade-off relationship.

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