Presentation 2017-10-13
A Study of Parameter Estimation of False Accept Rate for Biometric Performance Evaluation
Shigefumi Yamada, Takahiro Aoki, Takashi Shinzaki,
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Abstract(in English) Evaluations of biometric performance are performed by using biometric dataset actually collected from subjects being tested. The number of necessary biometric data is determined by the desired biometric performance, the false accept error (FAR) and the false reject rate (FRR). When estimating algorithm with low FAR, it is necessary to gather subjects on a large scale, and the cost of the data collection will become often a problem. It is required that the method to estimate the low FAR from small collected data makes the performance evaluations efficient. In this paper, we propose an improvement of our proposed scheme of estimation of the FAR to fit the tail of imposter score distribution to generalized Pareto (GP) distributions and to evaluate values and a confidence interval of FAR by using bootstrap method. The automatically determining the threshold of setting the tail of the score distributions is introduced. We evaluated our scheme by applying to fingerprint recognition.
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Keyword(in English) Biometrics / Fingerprint recognition / False accept rate (FAR) / Performance evaluation / Estimation of the number of collected data for performance evaluation
Paper # BioX2017-31
Date of Issue 2017-10-05 (BioX)

Conference Information
Committee BioX
Conference Date 2017/10/12(2days)
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Place (in English) Nobumoto Ohama Memorial Hall
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Biometrics, etc.
Chair Kazuhiko Sumi(AGU)
Vice Chair Hiroshi Takano(Toyama Pref. Univ.) / Hitoshi Imaoka(NEC)
Secretary Hiroshi Takano(AIST) / Hitoshi Imaoka(Fujitsu Labs.)
Assistant Masatsugu Ichino(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Naoyuki Takada(Secom) / Norihiro Okui(KDDI Research)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Biometrics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) A Study of Parameter Estimation of False Accept Rate for Biometric Performance Evaluation
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Biometrics
Keyword(2) Fingerprint recognition
Keyword(3) False accept rate (FAR)
Keyword(4) Performance evaluation
Keyword(5) Estimation of the number of collected data for performance evaluation
1st Author's Name Shigefumi Yamada
1st Author's Affiliation FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD.(FUJITSU LABS.)
2nd Author's Name Takahiro Aoki
2nd Author's Affiliation FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD.(FUJITSU LABS.)
3rd Author's Name Takashi Shinzaki
3rd Author's Affiliation FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD.(FUJITSU LABS.)
Date 2017-10-13
Paper # BioX2017-31
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) BioX-236
Page pp.pp.33-37(BioX),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2017-10-05 (BioX)