A new multimodal biometric database designed and acquired within the
framework of the European BioSecure Network of Excellence is presented. It is
comprised of more than 600 individuals acquired simultaneously in three
scenarios: 1) over the Internet, 2) in an office environment with desktop PC,
and 3) in indoor/outdoor environments with mobile portable hardware. The three
scenarios include a common part of audio/video data. Also, signature and
fingerprint data have been acquired both with desktop PC and mobile portable
hardware. Additionally, hand and iris data were acquired in the second scenario
using desktop PC. Acquisition has been conducted by 11 European institutions.
Additional features of the BioSecure Multimodal Database (BMDB) are: two
acquisition sessions, several sensors in certain modalities, balanced gender
and age distributions, multimodal realistic scenarios with simple and quick
tasks per modality, cross-European diversity, availability of demographic data,
and compatibility with other multimodal databases. The novel acquisition
conditions of the BMDB allow us to perform new challenging research and
evaluation of either monomodal or multimodal biometric systems, as in the
recent BioSecure Multimodal Evaluation campaign. A description of this campaign
including baseline results of individual modalities from the new database is
also given. The database is expected to be available for research purposes
through the BioSecure Association during 2008Comment: Published at IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
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