A biometric verification system based on the fusion of palmprint and face features

This paper presents a bimodal biometric verification system for physical access control based on the features of the palmprint and the face. The system tries to improve the verification results of unimodal biometric systems based on palmprint or facial features by integrating them using fusion at the matching-score level. The verification process consists of image acquisition using a scanner and a camera, palmprint recognition based on the principal lines, face recognition with eigenfaces, fusion of the unimodal results at the matching-score level, and finally, a decision based on thresholding. The experimental results show that fusion improves the equal error rate by 0.74% and the mininium total error rate by 1.72%.