Title : 
A comparison of GEC-based feature selection and weighting for multimodal biometric recognition
         
        
            Author : 
Alford, Aniesha ; Popplewell, Khary ; Dozier, Gerry ; Bryant, Kelvin ; Kelly, John ; Adams, Josh ; Abegaz, Tamirat ; Shelton, Joseph ; Ricanek, Karl ; Woodard, Damon L.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Center for Adv. Studies in Identity Sci., North Carolina A & T State Univ., Greensboro, NC, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, we compare the performance of a Steady-State Genetic Algorithm (SSGA) and an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) for multi-biometric feature selection and weighting. Our results show that when fusing face and periocular modalities, SSGA-based feature weighting (GEFeWSSGA) produces higher average recognition accuracies, while EDA-based feature selection (GEFeSEDA) performs better at reducing the number of features needed for recognition.
         
        
            Keywords : 
biometrics (access control); distributed algorithms; feature extraction; genetic algorithms; EDA; GEC; SSGA; estimation of distribution algorithm; feature selection; feature weighting; multimodal biometric recognition; steady-state genetic algorithm; Accuracy; Face; Face recognition; Feature extraction; Iris recognition; Probes; Eigenface; Estimation of Distribution Algorithm; Feature Selection; Feature Weighting; Local Binary Pattern; Steady-State Genetic Algorithm;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2011 IEEE Congress on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
New Orleans, LA
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-7834-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CEC.2011.5949959