Development of an efficient biometric multimodality identification system

Benachoura Chouaib
Electronique departenent
[email protected]

Abstract
Biometrics refers to automatic recognition of Abstracts graphique
individuals based on their physiological and/or
behavioral characteristics. Unimodal biometric
systems allow person recognition based on a single
source of biometric information but cannot guaranty a
perfect identification. Such systems are sensitive to
noisy sensor data, non-universality and lack of
individuality of the chosen biometric trait, and
susceptible to spoof attacks. Most of those problems
can be alleviated by using multimodal biometric
systems that combine several biometric signatures,
thus offering better recognition rates and a higher level
of security. [1] The most compelling reason to
combine different modalities is to improve the
recognition accuracy. However, features of different
biometrics have to be statistically independent. This
paper proposes a multimodal biometric systems using
fingerprint and iris recognition
Keywords: Biometric Identification, Fusion, Multimodal
biometric, Fingerprint, Iris

INTRODUCTION
With the new advanced of technology in recent years,
maintaining the privacy of people has becoming a major Previous works on multimodal biometric
challenge for researchers and scientists. Previously, the system
identification of a person depended on something that he
know, such as the password, PIN code (personal
identification number) which could be forgotten, guessed,
or shared over time, or something that he have such as the
ID card and passport, which could be lost, stolen or
shared. Problems encountered:
The third method establishes the person’s identity based  Choosing which biometric traits to work on.
on his inherent physical or behavioral traits and is known  No residence room to settle down due to
as biometric recognition. Biometric recognition can be
managemaent requirement & the large distance
defined as the science of establishing the identity of an
between university and home.
individual based on the physical and/or behavioral
 Computer problemes.
characteristics of the person in either a fully automated or
 very busy time at work.(4x4 system work)
a semi-automated manner. A biometric system measures
one or more physical or behavioral characteristics,
including fingerprint, palm print, face, iris, retina, ear, Iris recognition
voice, signature, gait, hand vein, odor, or the DNA
information of an individual to determine or verify his
identity. [2]
However, since fingerprint-based biometric systems
identification with a very high degree of confidence and
compact solid state fingerprint sensors can easily
embedded in various systems such as cellular phone
access and laptop computer log-in…etc.
The iris is the plainly visible, colored ring that surrounds Conclusions & perspectives
the pupil. It is a muscular structure that controls the Multimodal biometrics are gaining its popularity in
amount of light entering the eye, with intricate details that the current technological world. These systems are
can be measured, such as striations, pits and furrows expected to improve the recognition accuracy of a
(Kong and Zhang, 2001). The iris is not to be confused personal authentication system by combining the
with the retina, which lines the inside of the back of the evidence presented by multiple sources of
eye. There is no detailed correlation between the iris information. There has been evidence that this type
patterns of even identical twins, or the right and left eye of of system is better than applying unimodal
an individual. [3] biometric systems and can overcome the problems
Nevertheless, unimodal biometric systems encounter a in the previous system. Multimodal biometric
variety of security problems and present sometimes- systems is gaining its popularity and becoming
unacceptable error rates. Some of these drawbacks can be reality application in the world of verification and
overcome by setting up multimodal biometric systems. Fingerprint recognition
identification for the purpose of integrity, safety
Multimodal biometrics consists in combining two or more and security
biometric modalities in a single identification system to
improve the recognition accuracy. [4]

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