What is biometric information and how to measure it?

Yagiz Sutcu, Elham Tabassi, Husrev T. Sencar, Nasir Memon

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Abstract

Being able to measure the information content of biometric data has significant importance. However, it is not only difficult to define the biometric information conceptually, but also a challenging estimation problem due to many practical issue such as, different feature representation of different biometric modalities, unknown feature distributions, limited sample size, etc. In this paper, we provided a summary of the several proposed approaches and discuss their merits and shortcomings of these works and focused on techniques which are based on relative entropy. We also introduced a user-specific biometric information measure and evaluated these measures using iris biometric. We explored the effect of the biometric sample quality on the biometric information measurements using different subsets of the iris data with different quality levels. We also investigated the effect of binarization/encoding phase in the iris recognition on the biometric information by comparing our results obtained from image and binary feature domain.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2013 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, HST 2013
Pages67-72
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2013 13th IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, HST 2013 - Waltham, MA, United States
Duration: Nov 12 2013Nov 14 2013

Publication series

Name2013 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, HST 2013

Other

Other2013 13th IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, HST 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWaltham, MA
Period11/12/1311/14/13

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Public Administration

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