Computation EvaBio: A Tool for Performance Evaluation in Biometrics

Julien Mahier (1) , Baptiste Hemery (1) , Mohamad El-Abed (1) , Mohamed El-Allam (2) , Mohamed Bouhaddaoui (2) , Christophe Rosenberger (1)

1 Equipe SAFE - Laboratoire GREYC - UMR6072
2 Chercheur indépendant

Performance evaluation is a key factor in biometrics. In order to assess the quality of a new biometric system, one has in general to compute the perfor- mance on a large dataset to have significant results. It is not always an easy task as the computation complexity could be important. Moreover, the use of existing datasets is not obvious as it is represented in different ways (datasets, directory of images) and contain multiple scenarios (single enrollment process, different numbers of samples for the template generation for each user, etc.). We propose in this paper a new distributed-based platform facilitating the com- putation on different datasets in biometrics. The architecture of the proposed platform is composed of a server distributing computation tasks on its available clients. Experimental results on two biometric datasets (PolyU finger knuckle print and AR face datasets) show the benefit of proposed computing platform.

Domaines: Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]

Julien Mahier, Baptiste Hemery, Mohamad El-Abed, Mohamed El-Allam, Mohamed Bouhaddaoui, et al.. Computation EvaBio: A Tool for Performance Evaluation in Biometrics. International Journal of Automated Identification Technology (IJAIT), 2011, pp.24. ⟨hal-00984026⟩