Biosec baseline corpus: A multimodal biometric database

The baseline corpus of a new multimodal database, acquired in the framework of the FP6 EU BioSec Integrated Project, is presented. The corpus consists of fingerprint images acquired with three different sensors, frontal face images from a webcam, iris images from an iris sensor, and voice utterances acquired both with a close-talk headset and a distant webcam microphone. The BioSec baseline corpus includes real multimodal data from 200 individuals in two acquisition sessions. In this contribution, the acquisition setup and protocol are outlined, and the contents of the corpus—including data and population statistics—are described. The database will be publicly available for research purposes by mid-2006.