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FUSION OF IRIS AND FINGERPRINT BIOMETRIC FOR RECOGNITION Hunny Mehrotra, Ajita Rattani, Phalguni Gupta Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur India - 208016 {hunny, ajita, pg}@iitk.ac.in ABSTRACT This paper presents fusion of two biometric traits, i.e., iris and fingerprint, at matching score level architecture using weighted sum of score technique. The features are extracted from the pre-processed images of iris and fingerprint. These features of a query image are compared with those of a database image to obtain matching scores. The individual scores generated after matching are passed to the fusion module. This module consists of three major steps i.e., normalization, generation of similarity score and fusion of weighted scores. The final score is then used to declare the person as genuine or an impostor. The system is tested on database collected by the authors for 200 samples and gives an overall accuracy of 96.04% with FAR of 1.58% and FRR of 6.34%. KEY WORDS Iris, Fingerprint, Sum rule and Fusion 1. Introduction Biometrics refers to the use of physiological or biological characteristics to measure the identity of an individual. These features are unique to each individual and remain unaltered during a person’s lifetime. These features make biometrics a promising solution to the society. The access to the secured area can be made by the use of ID numbers or password which amounts to knowledge based security. But such information can easily be accessed by intruders and they can breach the doors of security. The problem arises in case of monetary transactions and highly restricted to information zone. Thus to overcome the above mentioned issue biometric traits are used. A biometric system is essentially a pattern recognition system which makes a personal identification by determining the authenticity of a specific physiological or behavioral characteristic possessed by the user. Biometric technologies are thus defined as the automated methods of identifying o