Feature selection for support vector machine-based face-iris multimodal biometric system

  • Authors:
  • Heng Fui Liau;Dino Isa

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Jalan Broga, 43500 Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia;School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Jalan Broga, 43500 Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Multimodal biometric can overcome the limitation possessed by single biometric trait and give better classification accuracy. This paper proposes face-iris multimodal biometric system based on fusion at matching score level using support vector machine (SVM). The performances of face and iris recognition can be enhanced using a proposed feature selection method to select an optimal subset of features. Besides, a simple computation speed-up method is proposed for SVM. The results show that the proposed feature selection method is able improve the classification accuracy in terms of total error rate. The support vector machine-based fusion method also gave very promising results.