Hybrid Fusion for Biometrics: Combining Score-Level and Decision-Level Fusion

A general framework of fusion at decision level, which works on ROCs instead of matching scores, is investigated. Under this framework, the authors further propose a hybrid fusion method, which combines the score-level and decision-level fusions, taking advantage of both fusion modes. The hybrid fusion adaptively tunes itself between the two levels of fusion, and improves the final performance over the original two levels. The proposed hybrid fusion is simple and effective for combining different biometrics.