Dr Norman Poh

Research Fellow

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Phone: Work: 01483 68 6042
Room no: 32 AB 05

Further information

Publications

Highlights

  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2008) 'Incorporating model-specific score distribution in speaker verification systems'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T AUDIO SPEECH, 16 (3), pp. 594-606.
  • Poh N, Bengio S. (2006) 'Database, protocols and tools for evaluating score-level fusion algorithms in biometric authentication'. Pattern Recognition, 39 (2), pp. 223-233.

Journal articles

  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2011) 'A Unified Framework for Multimodal Biometric Fusion Incorporating Quality Measures.'. IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell,
  • Poh N, Chan CH, Kittler J, Marcel S, Mc Cool C, Rua EA, Castro JLA, Villegas M, Paredes R, Struc V, Pavesic N, Salah AA, Fang H, Costen N. (2010) 'An Evaluation of Video-to-Video Face Verification'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T INF FOREN SEC, 5 (4), pp. 781-801.
  • Ortega-Garcia J, Fierrez J, Alonso-Fernandez F, Galbally J, Freire MR, Gonzalez-Rodriguez J, Garcia-Mateo C, Alba-Castro JL, Gonzalez-Agulla E, Otero-Muras E, Garcia-Salicetti S, Allano L, Ly-Van B, Dorizzi B, Kittler J, Bourlai T, Poh N, Deravi F, Ng MWR, Fairhurst M, Hennebert J, Humm A, Tistarelli M, Brodo L, Richiardi J, Drygajlo A, Ganster H, Sukno FM, Pavani SK, Frangi A, Akarun L, Savran A. (2010) 'The Multiscenario Multienvironment BioSecure Multimodal Database (BMDB)'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC IEEE T PATTERN ANAL, 32 (6), pp. 1097-1111.
  • Poh N, Kittler J, Bourlai T. (2010) 'Quality-Based Score Normalization With Device Qualitative Information for Multimodal Biometric Fusion'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T SYST MAN CY A, 40 (3), pp. 539-554.
  • Poh N, Bourlai T, Kittler J. (2010) 'A multimodal biometric test bed for quality-dependent, cost-sensitive and client-specific score-level fusion algorithms'. ELSEVIER SCI LTD PATTERN RECOGN, 43 (3), pp. 1094-1105.
  • Poh N, Kittler J, Marcel S, Matrouf D, Bonastre J-F. (2010) 'Model and score adaptation for biometric systems: Coping with device interoperability and changing acquisition conditions'. Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition, , pp. 1229-1232.
  • Poh N, Windridge D, Mottl V, Tatarchuk A, Eliseyev A. (2010) 'Addressing Missing Values in Kernel-Based Multimodal Biometric Fusion Using Neutral Point Substitution'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T INF FOREN SEC, 5 (3), pp. 461-469.
  • Poh N, Bourlai T, Kittler J, Allano L, Alonso-Fernandez F, Ambekar O, Baker J, Dorizzi B, Fatukasi O, Fierrez J, Ganster H, Ortega-Garcia J, Maurer D, Salah AA, Scheidat T, Vielhauer C. (2009) 'Benchmarking Quality-Dependent and Cost-Sensitive Score-Level Multimodal Biometric Fusion Algorithms'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T INF FOREN SEC, 4 (4), pp. 849-866.
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2008) 'Incorporating model-specific score distribution in speaker verification systems'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE T AUDIO SPEECH, 16 (3), pp. 594-606.
  • Poh N, Martin A, Bengio S. (2007) 'Performance generalization in biometric authentication using joint user-specific and sample bootstraps.'. IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell, United States: 29 (3), pp. 492-498.
  • Kittler J, Poh N, Fatukasi O, Messer K, Kryszczuk K, Richiardi J, Drygajlo A. (2007) 'Quality dependent fusion of intramodal and multimodal biometric experts'. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 6539
  • Poh N, Bengio S. (2007) 'Estimating the confidence interval of expected performance curve in biometric authentication using joint bootstrap'. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 2, pp. II137-II140.
  • Poh N, Bengio S. (2006) 'Database, protocols and tools for evaluating score-level fusion algorithms in biometric authentication'. Pattern Recognition, 39 (2), pp. 223-233.
  • Poh N, Bengio S. (2006) 'Using chimeric users to construct fusion classifiers in biometric authentication tasks: An investigation'. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 5, pp. V1077-V1080.

Conference papers

  • Merati A, Poh N, Kittler J. (2010) 'Extracting discriminative information from cohort models'. IEEE IEEE Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, Washington DC, USA: BTAS 2010
  • Wong R, Poh N, Kittler J, Frohlich D. (2010) 'Interactive quality-driven feedback for biometric systems'. IEEE Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, Washington DC, USA: BTAS 2010
  • Poh N, Kittler J, Rattani A, Tistarelli M. (2010) 'Group-specific score normalization for biometric systems'. IEEE Proceedings of Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Workshops, San Francisco, USA: CVPRW 2010, pp. 38-45.
  • Kryszczuk K, Poh N. (2010) 'Handling high dimensionality in biometric classification with multiple quality measures using locality preserving projection'. IEEE IEEE Proceedings of Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Workshops, CVPRW 2010, San Francisco, USA: CVPRW 2010, pp. 146-153.
  • Wong R, Poh N, Kittler J, Frohlich D. (2010) 'Towards inclusive design in mobile biometry'. IEEE IEEE Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Human System Interaction, Rzeszów, Poland: HSI 2010, pp. 267-274.
  • Marcel S, McCool C, vejka PM, Ahonen T, vCernocký J, Chakraborty S, Balasubramanian V, Panchanathan S, Chan CH, Kittler J, Poh N, Fauve B, Glembek O, Plchot O, Jančík ZV, Larcher A, Lévy C, Matrouf D, Bonastre J-F, Lee P-H, Hung J-Y, Wu S-W, Hung Y-P, Machlica L, Mason J, Mau S, Sanderson C, Monzo D, Albiol A, Nguyen HV, Bai L, Wang Y, Niskanen M, Turtinen M, Nolazco-Flores JA, Garcia-Perera LP, Aceves-Lopez R, Villegas M, Paredes R. (2010) 'On the Results of the First Mobile Biometry (MOBIO) Face and Speaker Verification Evaluation'. ICPR Contests,
  • Chan CH, Kittler J, Poh N, Ahonen T, Pietikäinen M. (2009) '(Multiscale) local phase quantisation histogram discriminant analysis with score normalisation for robust face recognition'. IEEE IEEE Proceeedings of 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, Kyoto, Japan: ICCV Workshops 2009, pp. 633-640.
  • Poh N, Merati A, Kittler J. (2009) 'Adaptive Client-Impostor Centric Score Normalization: A Case Study in Fingerprint Verification'. IEEE 2009 IEEE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS: THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS, Washington, DC: 3rd IEEE International Conference on Biometrics - Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 2009), pp. 245-251.
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2009) 'A Biometric Menagerie Index for Characterising Template/Model-Specific Variation'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN ADVANCES IN BIOMETRICS, Comp Vis Lab, Alghero, ITALY: 3rd IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Advances in Biometrics 5558, pp. 816-827.
  • Windridge D, Poh N, Mottl V, Tatarchuk A, Eliseyev A. (2009) 'Handling Multimodal Information Fusion with Missing Observations Using the Neutral Point Substitution Method'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS, Univ Iceland, Reykjavik, ICELAND: 8th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems 5519, pp. 161-170.
  • Poh N, Wong R, Kittler J, Roli F. (2009) 'Challenges and Research Directions for Adaptive Biometric Recognition Systems'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN ADVANCES IN BIOMETRICS, Comp Vis Lab, Alghero, ITALY: 3rd IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Advances in Biometrics 5558, pp. 753-764.
  • Poh N, Chan CH, Kittler J, Marcel S, Mc Cool C, Rua EA, Castro JLA, Villegas M, Paredes R, Struc V, Pavesic N, Salah AA, Fang H, Costen N. (2009) 'Face Video Competition'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN ADVANCES IN BIOMETRICS, Comp Vis Lab, Alghero, ITALY: 3rd IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Advances in Biometrics 5558, pp. 715-724.
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2008) 'On Using Error Bounds to Optimize Cost-Sensitive Multimodal Biometric uthentication'. IEEE IEEE Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Florida, USA: ICPR 2008, pp. 684-687.
  • Fatukasi O, Kittler J, Poh N. (2008) 'Estimation of Missing Values in Multimodal Biometric Fusion'. IEEE 2008 IEEE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS: THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS (BTAS), Washington, DC: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Biometrics - Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 2008), pp. 117-122.
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2008) 'A Family of Methods for Quality-based Multimodal Biometric Fusion using Generative Classifiers'. IEEE 2008 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL AUTOMATION ROBOTICS & VISION: ICARV 2008, VOLS 1-4, Hannoi, VIETNAM: 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, pp. 1162-1167.
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2008) 'A METHODOLOGY FOR SEPARATING SHEEP FROM GOATS FOR CONTROLLED ENROLLMENT AND MULTIMODAL FUSION'. IEEE 2008 BIOMETRICS SYMPOSIUM (BSYM), Tampa, FL: 6th Biometrics Symposium (BSYM 2008), pp. 17-22.
  • Kiltter J, Poh N. (2008) 'Multibiometrics for Identity Authentication: Issues, Benefits and Challenges'. IEEE 2008 IEEE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS: THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS (BTAS), Washington, DC: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Biometrics - Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 2008), pp. 434-439.
  • Poh N, Kittler J, Smith R, Tena JR. (2007) 'A method for estimating authentication performance over time, with applications to face biometrics'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN PROGRESS IN PATTERN RECOGNITION, IMAGE ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS, Valparaiso, CHILE: 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition 4756, pp. 360-369.
  • Fatukasi O, Kittler J, Poh N. (2007) 'Quality controlled multimodal fusion of biometric experts'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN PROGRESS IN PATTERN RECOGNITION, IMAGE ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS, Valparaiso, CHILE: 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition 4756, pp. 881-890.
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2007) 'Predicting biometric authentication system performance across different application conditions: A bootstrap enhanced parametric approach'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN Advances in Biometrics, Proceedings, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA: International Conference on Biometrics 4642, pp. 625-635.
  • Poh N, Kittler J. (2007) 'On the use of log-likelihood ratio based model-specific score normalisation in biometric authentication'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN Advances in Biometrics, Proceedings, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA: International Conference on Biometrics 4642, pp. 614-624.
  • Poh N, Heusch G, Kittler J. (2007) 'On combination of face authentication experts by a mixture of quality dependent fusion classifiers'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN Multiple Classifier Systems, Proceedings, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC: 7th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems 4472, pp. 344-356.
  • Poh N, Kittler J, Bourlai T. (2007) 'Improving biometric device interoperability by likelihood ratio-based quality dependent score normalization'. IEEE 2007 FIRST IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS: THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS, Crystal City, VA: 1st IEEE International Conference on Biometrics - Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 2007), pp. 325-329.
  • Poh N, Bengio S. (2006) 'Using chimeric users to construct fusion classifiers in biometric authentication tasks: An investigation'. IEEE 2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-13, Toulouse, FRANCE: 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 5935-5938.
  • Poh N, Bengio S. (2005) 'Can chimeric persons be used in multimodal biometric authentication experiments?'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN MACHINE LEARNING FOR MULTIMODAL INTERACTION, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND: 2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction 3869, pp. 87-100.
  • Poh N, Korczak J. (2001) 'Hybrid biometric person authentication using face and voice features'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AUDIO- AND VIDEO-BASED BIOMETRIC PERSON AUTHENTICATION, PROCEEDINGS, Halmstad, SWEDEN: 3rd International Conference on Audio- and Video- Based Biometric Person Authentication 2091, pp. 348-353.