Review Article

An Overview of Multimodal Biometrics Using the Face and Ear

Table 3

The composition of MD I, II, and III.

Multimodal database (subjects)InstanceFace databaseEar database

MD I (38)Gallery7 × 38 = 266Yale BSubset 1 (7 images/subject)Gallery (38)
ProbeSubset 112 × 13 × 38 = 5928Subset 2 (12 images/subject)Probe (38)
Subset 212 × 13 × 38 = 5928Subset 3 (12 images/subject)
Subset 314 × 13 × 38 = 6916Subset 4 (14 images/subject)
Subset 419 × 13 × 38 = 9386Subset 5 (19 images/subject)

MD II (50)Gallery7 × 50 = 350GTGallery (7 images/subject randomly selected)Gallery (50)
Probe8 × 13 × 50 = 5200Probe (the remainder 8 images/subject)Probe (50)

MD III (79)Gallery7 × 79 = 553AR (79)Subset 1 (7 images/subject without occlusion from Session 1)Gallery (79)
ProbeSubset 17 × 13 × 79 = 7189Subset 2 (7 images/subject without occlusion from Session 2)Probe (79)
Subset 26 × 13 × 79 = 6162Subset 3 (6 images/subject with sunglasses)
Subset 36 × 13 × 79 = 6162Subset 4 (6 images/subject with scarf)