REPORT sby98a/IDIAP Multi-Modal Data Fusion for Person Authentication using SVM Ben-Yacoub, Souheil EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/1998/rr98-07.pdf PUBLIC Idiap-RR-07-1998 1998 IDIAP In the context of multi-modal person authentication, a set of experts (face recognizer, speaker recognizer, etc. ) give their opinion about the identity of an individual. The opinions of the experts can be combined to form a final decision (rejecting or accepting the claim). We show that the final decision is a binary classification problem and propose to solve it by a Support Vector Machine (SVM). We compare our approach with other proposed methods for an identical verification task and show that it leads to considerably higher performance.