Hypothesis test of fingerprint-image matching algorithms in operational ROC analysis / Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Raghu N. Kacker.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Wu, Jin Chu, author.

Contributor:

Kacker, Raghu.

Martin, Alvin F.

Information Technology Laboratory (National Institute of Standards and Technology). Information Access Division.

Information Technology Laboratory (National Institute of Standards and Technology). Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division.

Series:

NISTIR ; 7586.

NISTIR ; 7586

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biometric identification.

Fingerprints--Data processing.

Fingerprints.

Image processing--Digital techniques.

Image processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 23 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Hypothesis test of fingerprint-image matching algorithms in operational Receiver Operating Characteristic analysis

Place of Publication:

Gaithersburg, MD : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, [2009].

System Details:

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Summary:

To evaluate the performance of fingerprint-image matching algorithms on large datasets, a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is applied. From the operational perspective, the true accept rate (TAR) of the genuine scores at a specified false accept rate (FAR) of the impostor scores is usually employed. And the equal error rate (EER) can also be used. The accuracies of the measurement TAR and EER in terms of standard errors and 95 % confidence intervals can be computed using the nonparametric two-sample bootstrap based on our studies of bootstrap variability on large fingerprint datasets. In this article, the hypothesis testing is performed to determine whether the difference between the performance of one algorithm and a hypothesized value, or the difference between the performances of two algorithms where the correlation is taken into account is statistically significant. In the case that the alternative hypothesis is accepted, the sign of the difference is employed to determine which is better than the other. Examples are provided.

Notes:

"June 2009."

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Title from page [1], viewed December 8, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 22-23).

OCLC:

475568095

Publisher Number:

GOVPUB-C13-367ee6d5c84e406b4b32ec916edf1a81

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access