Treffer: Fingerprint and Speaker Verification Decisions Fusion Using a Functional Link Network.

The article proposes to combine fingerprint and speaker verification decisions using a functional link network. This done to circumvent the nontrivial trial-and-error and iterative training effort as seen in back propagation neural networks, which cannot guarantee global optimal solutions. The proposed network is first applied to a pattern recognition problem to illustrate its approximation capability. Then it is used to combine the fingerprint and speaker verification decisions with much improved receiver operating characteristics performance.