This paper presents a template aging study of eye movement biometrics, considering three distinct biometric techniques on multiple stimuli and eye tracking systems. Short-to-midterm aging effects are examined over two-weeks, on a highresolution eye tracking system, and seven-months, on a low-resolution eye tracking system. We find that, in all cases, aging effects are evident as early as two we...

This paper describes a prototype for Brazilian bankcheck recognition. The description is divided into three topics: bankcheck information extraction, digit amount recognition and signature verification. In bankcheck information extraction, our algorithms provide signature and digit amount images free of background pattern and bankcheck printed information. In digit amount recognition, we dealt ...

The MOBIO database provides a challenging test-bed for speaker and face recognition systems because it includes voice and face samples as they would appear in forensic scenarios. In this paper, we investigate uni-modal and bimodal multi-algorithm fusion using logistic regression. The source speaker and face recognition systems were taken from the 2013 speaker and face recognition evaluations th...

This paper presents a new parallel transmission framework for reliable multimedia data transmission over spectrally shaped channels using multicarrier modulation. We propose to transmit source data layers of different perceptual importance in parallel, each occupying a number of subchannels. New loading algorithms are developed to efficiently allocate the available resources, e.g. transmitted p...

Reproduction of kernel Hilbert spaces offers an attractive setting for imaginary time path integrals, since they allow to naturally define a probability on the space of paths, which is equal to the probability associated with the paths in Feynman’s path integral formulation. This study shows that if the propagator is Gaussian, its variance equals the squared norm of a linear functional on the s...

Most existing Turbo unequal error protection (UEP) codes provide two error protection levels at the cost of extending the block size of the codeword or increasing the computational complexity. This paper proposes two novel Turbo UEP coding schemes, which provide multiple error protection levels for information bits, according to their different sensitivities to the channel noise. By permuting t...

This article deals with OFDM transmission associated with turbo codes, in order to realize a software radio modem with several waveforms. Except for the frequency transposition, we show that all the functions can be implemented as software. This modem is adapted for HF, VHF and UHF transmission, depending on the chosen waveform. Simulations and tests in real condition achieve a bit error rate o...

This paper presents a speaker verification system using a combination of Vector Quantization (VQ) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to improve the HMM performance. A Malay spoken digit database which contains 100 speakers is used for the testing and validation modules. It is shown that, by using the proposed combination technique, a total success rate (TSR) of 99.97% is achieved and it is an improv...

Intra-shape deformations complicate 3D shape recognition and therefore need proper modeling. Thereto, an isometric deformation model is used in this paper. The method proposed does not need explicit point correspondences for the comparison of 3D shapes. The geodesic distance matrix is used as an isometry-invariant shape representation. Two approaches are described to arrive at a sampling order ...