Hybrid face recognition, using image (2D) and structural (3D)
information, has explored the fusion of Nearest Neighbour classifiers. This
paper examines the effectiveness of feature modelling for each individual
modality, 2D and 3D. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the fusion of feature
modelling techniques for the 2D and 3D modalities yields performance
improvements over the individual classifiers. By fusing the feature modelling
classifiers for each modality with equal weights the average Equal Error Rate
improves from 12.60% for the 2D classifier and 12.10% for the 3D classifier to
7.38% for the Hybrid 2D+3D clasiffier.