On selecting Gabor features for biometric authentication

  • Authors:
  • Loris Nanni;Alessandra Lumini

  • Affiliations:
  • DEIS, IEIIT – CNR, Universita di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy.;DEIS, IEIIT – CNR, Universita di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We describe a Gabor feature selection technique that allows us to develop a fast and robust Gabor-feature based biometric system. Existing Gabor based methods use a huge number of Gabor features to represent the patterns. Our experiments on different biometric characteristics show that by using only few (∼10) Gabor features, it is possible to achieve a very low Equal Error Rate (EER). Only a low number of Gabor filters and sub-images, selected by running the Sequential Forward Floating Selection (SFFS), are exploited in the fusion step. The system has been tested on two biometric traits: ear authentication and finger authentication.