A biometric identification system based on the fusion of palmprint and speech signal

Biometric systems allow automatic person recognition based on physical or behavioral features which belong to a certain person. Each biometric feature has its limits and no biometric system is perfect so unimodal biometric systems raise a variety of problems. To over fulfilling some of the mentioned inconvenient and limitations and to increase the level of security the multimodal biometric systems are used. This paper proposes the multimodal biometrics system for identity verification using two traits, i.e., speech signal and palmprint. The proposed system is designed for applications where the training data contains a speech signal and palmprint. The matching score level architecture uses weighted sum of score technique. The features are extracted from the pre-processed palm image and pre-processed speech signal. The features of a query image and speech signal are compared with those of a database images and speech signal to obtain matching scores. The individual scores generated after matching are passed to the fusion module. This module consists of three major steps i.e., normalization, generation of similarity score and fusion of weighted scores. The final score is then used to declare the person as genuine or an impostor. The system is tested on database collected by the authors for 120 subjects and gives an overall accuracy of 98.63% with FAR of 1.67% and FRR of 0.84%.