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BioSecure DS2: A Score-level Quality-dependent and Cost-sensitive Multimodal Biometric Test Bed Norman Poh, Thirimachos Bourlai and Josef Kittler Abstract This paper presents a test bed for evaluating, comparing and benchmarking fusion algorithms for multimodal biometric authentication. It consists of a database designed to benchmark quality-dependent and conventional fusion algorithms. These two types of algorithms are different because only the former one uses quality measures to derive the fused score. These auxiliary measurements describe the quality of a biometric signal. To the best of our knowledge, the BioSecure DS2 evaluation campaign is the first attempt to benchmark these quality-dependent fusion algorithms. A second unique characteristic of the BioSecure DS2 evaluation campaign is its focus on cost- sensitive fusion of multiple biometrics. In this type of evaluation, one considers a fusion task as an optimization problem whose goal is to achieve the highest performance with a minimal cost of acquiring and processing biometric information. The BioSecure DS2 database contains 24 streams of match scores produced by using multiple biometrics and multiple samples of each biometric acquired using multiple devices. The database contains almost 1000 subjects. As a variant to benchmarking the quality-dependent and cost-based fusion schemes, the proposed experimental protocols allow one to benchmark person-dependent (or client-specific) fusion algorithm, hence, providing a test bed for cost-, person- and quality-dependent fusion algorithms. Index Terms multimodal biometric authentication, benchmark, database, fusion ef All the authors are with CVSSP, SEPS, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, U.K. E-mail: normanpoh@, t.bourlai@surrey.ac.uk, j.kittler@surrey.ac.uk I. INTRODUCTION In order to improve confidence in verifying the identity of individuals seeking access to physical or virtual locations both government and commercial organisations are implem