The Multiscenario Multienvironment BioSecure Multimodal Database (BMDB)

—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 com...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: PAMI
• Authors: Javier Ortega-Garcia, Julian Fiérrez, Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Javier Galbally, Manuel R. Freire, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Carmen García-Mateo, José Luis Alba-Castro, Elisardo González-Agulla, Enrique Otero Muras, Sonia Garcia-Salicetti, Lorène Allano, Van-Bao Ly, Bernadette Dorizzi, Josef Kittler, Thirimachos Bourlai, Norman Poh, Farzin Deravi, Ming W. R. Ng, Michael C. Fairhurst, Jean Hennebert, Andreas Humm, Massimo Tistarelli, Linda Brodo, Jonas Richiardi, Andrzej Drygajlo, Harald Ganster, Federico Sukno, Sri-Kaushik Pavani, Alejandro F. Frangi, Lale Akarun, Arman Savran
• Keywords: Desktop Pc, Mobile Portable Hardware, Multimodal Databases, PAMI 2010