This document describes the process of generating a ROC curve to evaluate the performance of a biometric authentication system. It involves:
1) Classifying genuine and imposter scores into ranges from 0-0.1, 0.1-0.2, etc.
2) Counting the classifications in each range to determine true positives, false positives, etc.
3) Plotting the true positive rate against the false positive rate to generate the ROC curve and determine the equal error rate (EER) where the curves intersect.
4) To minimize total cost when false accepts cost 10 euro and false rejects cost 30 euro, the optimal operating point on the ROC curve can be selected.
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