Introduction—About the Need of an Evaluation Framework in Biometrics
Published 1 January 2009
Gérard Chollet, Bernadette Dorizzi, Dijana Petrovska‐Delacrétaz
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Questions about how scientific progress is measured, how much data is needed to claim with confidence that one system performs better than another one, and how to predict performance on a different data set are central to this book.
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