Using Comparative Human Descriptions for Soft Biometrics
Using Comparative Human Descriptions for Soft Biometrics
Soft biometrics is a new form of biometric identification which utilizes labeled physical or behavioral traits. Although these traits intuitively have less discriminatory capability than mensurate approaches, they offer several advantages over traditional biometric techniques. Soft biometric traits can be typically described as labels and measurements which can be understood by people, allowing retrieval and recognition based solely on human descriptions. Although being a key component of eyewitness evidence, conventional human descriptions can be considered to be unreliable. A novel method of obtaining human descriptions will be introduced which utilizes visual comparisons between subjects. The Elo rating system is used to infer relative measurements of subjects’ traits based on the comparative human descriptions. This innovative approach to obtaining human descriptions has been shown to counter many problems associated with categorical (absolute) labels. The resulting soft biometric signatures have been demonstrated to be robust and allow accurate retrieval of subjects in video data and show that elapsed time can have little effect on comparative descriptions.
Reid, Daniel
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Nixon, Mark
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11 October 2011
Reid, Daniel
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Nixon, Mark
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Reid, Daniel and Nixon, Mark
(2011)
Using Comparative Human Descriptions for Soft Biometrics.
The first International Joint Conference on Biometrics, Washington DC, United States.
11 - 13 Oct 2011.
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Soft biometrics is a new form of biometric identification which utilizes labeled physical or behavioral traits. Although these traits intuitively have less discriminatory capability than mensurate approaches, they offer several advantages over traditional biometric techniques. Soft biometric traits can be typically described as labels and measurements which can be understood by people, allowing retrieval and recognition based solely on human descriptions. Although being a key component of eyewitness evidence, conventional human descriptions can be considered to be unreliable. A novel method of obtaining human descriptions will be introduced which utilizes visual comparisons between subjects. The Elo rating system is used to infer relative measurements of subjects’ traits based on the comparative human descriptions. This innovative approach to obtaining human descriptions has been shown to counter many problems associated with categorical (absolute) labels. The resulting soft biometric signatures have been demonstrated to be robust and allow accurate retrieval of subjects in video data and show that elapsed time can have little effect on comparative descriptions.
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Published date: 11 October 2011
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Event Dates: 11-13 October 2011
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The first International Joint Conference on Biometrics, Washington DC, United States, 2011-10-11 - 2011-10-13
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Vision, Learning and Control
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/272922
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