MyIdea - Sensors Specifications and Acquisition Protocol
Bruno Dumas, Jean Hennebert, Andreas Humm, Dijana Petrovska, Catherine Pugin · 2006
In this document we describe the sensor specifications and acquisition protocol of MyIdea, a new large and realistic multi-modal biometric database designed to conduct research experiments in Identity Verification (IV). The key points of MyIdea are twofold. 1. it is strongly multi-modal, allowing the studies of potential correlations between synchronized/unsynchronized modalities 2. it implements realistic scenarios in an open-set framework The combination of these two points makes MyIdea novel and pretty unique in comparison to existing databases. Furthermore, special care is put in the design of the acquisition procedures to allow MyIdea to complement existing databases, such as, for example the BANCA database. MyIdea includes face, audio, fingerprints, signature, handwriting and hand geometry. Further to the asynchronized acquisition of each modality, two synchronized recordings are performed: face-voice and writing-voice. The general specifications of MyIdea are: target of 104 subjects, different quality of sensors, various but realistic acquisition scenarios, organization of the recordings to allow for open-set experimental scenarios.