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Revisiting Doddington's Zoo: A Systematic Method to Assess User-dependent Variabilities

Poh, Norman
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Bengio, Samy  
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Ross, Arun
2006
Multimodal User Authentication (MMUA)

A systematic analysis of user-dependent performance variability in the context of automatic speaker verification was first studied by Doddington \etal (1998). Different categories of users were distinguished and were called by animal names such as sheep, goats, lambs and wolves. Although such distinctions are important, it does not directly discriminate well-behaved'' users from badly behaved'' users. In our context, the badly behaved users are those who will bring the performance down when added to the system. We then extend such a study to formulate a user-specific score normalization (called F-norm's variant) and show that the user-dependent variability can be reduced to obtain an enhanced performance. By introducing some constraints, the proposed framework can also provide a stable user-dependent performance in terms of DET despite the fact that few (genuine) samples are available. In the context of multimodal biometrics, we show that it is possible to decide whether or not fusing the output of several systems is better than selecting any one of them, on a per user basis. This strategy is called an ``OR-switcher''. Based on 15 multimodal fusion experiments, the performance of OR-switcher is \emph{significantly} better than the state-of-the-art score-level fusion algorithms.

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