Authors:
Ana F. Sequeira
1
;
João C. Monteiro
1
;
Ana Rebelo
2
and
Hélder P. Oliveira
2
Affiliations:
1
INESC TEC and Universidade do Porto, Portugal
;
2
INESC TEC, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Biometrics, Multimodal, Database, Portable Handheld Devices.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Services
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Image Formation and Preprocessing
;
Image Formation, Acquisition Devices and Sensors
;
Mobile Imaging
Abstract:
Biometrics represents a return to a natural way of identification: testing someone by what (s)he is, instead
of relying on something (s)he owns or knows seems likely to be the way forward. Biometric systems that
include multiple sources of information are known as multimodal. Such systems are generally regarded as an
alternative to fight a variety of problems all unimodal systems stumble upon. One of the main challenges found
in the development of biometric recognition systems is the shortage of publicly available databases acquired
under real unconstrained working conditions. Motivated by such need the MobBIO database was created
using an Asus EeePad Transformer tablet, with mobile biometric systems in mind. The proposed database is
composed by three modalities: iris, face and voice.