Int. J. Biom.Pub Date : 2018-03-01DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2018.10011199
M. H. Ghaeminia, S. B. Shokouhi
{"title":"GSI: efficient spatio-temporal template for human gait recognition","authors":"M. H. Ghaeminia, S. B. Shokouhi","doi":"10.1504/IJBM.2018.10011199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBM.2018.10011199","url":null,"abstract":"Human gait recognition is a challenging task in computer vision community. In order to represent the gait, the most common feature is a gait template. Many efficient templates have been developed recently, however, the effectiveness of the proposed motion models is still under investigation. A novel template feature, named gait salient image (GSI) is introduced in this paper. The main contribution of the proposed GSI is encoding the motion energy of gait into a single template. This idea is being conceptualised by applying appropriate spatio-temporal filter for extracting motion features and averaging it over a gait period. To show how GSI-based feature is being efficient, the proposed template is classified using PCA+LDA. Extensive experiments on popular gait databases reveal an improvement over the available methods in terms of efficiency and accuracy. The value of recognition rate is 58.44% for Rank1 and 76.60% for Rank5 based on the USF database.","PeriodicalId":262486,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Biom.","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132078214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Int. J. Biom.Pub Date : 2018-03-01DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2018.10011198
H. Kalluri
{"title":"Palmprint identification and verification with minimal number of features","authors":"H. Kalluri","doi":"10.1504/IJBM.2018.10011198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBM.2018.10011198","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, palmprint verification and identification with minimum number of features is proposed. The wide principal line extractors (WPLEs) on the region of interest (ROI) are applied to generate wide principal line images (WPLIs). The WPLI is segmented into 2 × 2, 4 × 4, 8 × 8 and 16 × 16 and the feature value is extracted directly from each segment. Experiments are conducted by using the extracted features. The results show that the equal error rate (EER), decidability index (DI) and correct recognition rate (CRR) of the proposed approach is better than existing methods for PolyUPalmprint Database.","PeriodicalId":262486,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Biom.","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123606196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Int. J. Biom.Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009351
Ahmad Hassanat, V. B. Surya Prasath, Bassam M. Al-Mahadeen, Samaher Madallah Moslem Alhasanat
{"title":"Classification and gender recognition from veiled-faces","authors":"Ahmad Hassanat, V. B. Surya Prasath, Bassam M. Al-Mahadeen, Samaher Madallah Moslem Alhasanat","doi":"10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009351","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to investigate to what extent a computer system can identify veiled-human and recognise gender using eyes and the uncovered part of the face. For the purpose of this study, we have created a new veiled persons image (VPI) database shot using a mobile phone camera, imaging 100 different veiled-persons over two sessions. After preprocessing and segmentation we used a fused method for feature extraction. The fusion occurs between geometrical (edge ratio) and textural (probability density function of the colour moments) features. The experimental results using different classifiers were ranging from 88:63% to 97:22% for person identification accuracy before feature selection and up to 97:55% after feature selection. The proposed method achieved up to 99:41% success rate for gender classification.","PeriodicalId":262486,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Biom.","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132769397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Int. J. Biom.Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009328
Soufiane Ezghari, Naouar Belghini, Azeddine Zahi, A. Zarghili
{"title":"Fuzzy similarity-based classification method for gender recognition using 3D facial images","authors":"Soufiane Ezghari, Naouar Belghini, Azeddine Zahi, A. Zarghili","doi":"10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009328","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a new fuzzy similarity-based classification (FSBC) method for the task of gender recognition. The proposed method characterises each individual by extracting geometrical features from a 3D facial image using pertinent radial curves. Our approach includes representing the extracted features using fuzzy sets to handle imprecision in its values. Also, the proposed FSBC method recognises the gender of a new person by evaluating his similarity to the male and female samples pre-set as gender representatives set, then we aggregate the obtained similarities to compute the scores of belonging to each gender. In the end, we ascribe to each new person the gender with the higher score. With the proposed method, two main advantages are obtained: First, we used the OWA operator and RIM quantifier to define the percentage of significant features for the similarity assessment. Second, the aggregation process was performed using compensatory operators to ensure the selected gender has high similarities. Experiments were conducted using FRAV3D database, by considering only one frontal pose in the gender representatives set. The obtained gender recognition rate of the proposed method was very promising compared to other classification method.","PeriodicalId":262486,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Biom.","volume":"308 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122611665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Int. J. Biom.Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009342
Samiul Azam, M. Gavrilova
{"title":"Person's discriminating visual features for recognising gender: LASSO regression model and feature analysis","authors":"Samiul Azam, M. Gavrilova","doi":"10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009342","url":null,"abstract":"Gender is one of the demographic attributes of a person, which is considered as a soft trait in the area of biometric. Several studies have been conducted to extract gender information based on a person's face image, gait pattern, fingerprint, iris, speech and hand geometry. In this paper, we concentrate on predicting gender using a person's image aesthetic, which has never been studied before. We propose a visual preference model for discriminating males from females using LASSO regression. The preference model uses 57 dimensional feature vector containing 14 different perceptual image features. The model is evaluated on a database of 34,000 images from 170 Flickr users (110 males and 60 females). Results show that maximum and average accuracy of predicting gender are around 91.67% and 84.38%, respectively, on 100 random sampling of training and testing datasets. The proposed method outperforms all existing state-of-the-art methods. In this paper, we also address two important research questions: which features are impacting the discrimination of male-female visual preferences and how many images are sufficient for predicting a person's gender.","PeriodicalId":262486,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Biom.","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127739512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Int. J. Biom.Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009329
F. Marcolin
{"title":"Miscellaneous expertise of 3D facial landmarks in recent literature","authors":"F. Marcolin","doi":"10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009329","url":null,"abstract":"As the interest in human face grows, facial landmarks become more and more important for a large variety of fields and applications. Multipurpose medical is evidently leading in this sense, but others such as skull study for crime scenes, sex estimation, and attractiveness quantification, morphological and cephalometric analyses are present. A cluster analysis of the examined papers is performed depending on scope, landmarking method, and facial database features. The purpose is to face these topics by providing the reader with a comprehensive view of what 3D facial landmarks are and what \"they have been up to\" in 2014 and 2015. The aim is to offer to users the very up-to-date scenario, the best outcomes, i.e., the latest frontier of landmarks' talents and skills. The third dimension allowed to select the most prominent contributions, especially in terms of scientific advance innovativeness.","PeriodicalId":262486,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Biom.","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126617398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Int. J. Biom.Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009340
Sudhir Rohilla, A. Sharma, R. K. Singla
{"title":"Optimal feature set selection in online signature verification","authors":"Sudhir Rohilla, A. Sharma, R. K. Singla","doi":"10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBM.2017.10009340","url":null,"abstract":"The online signature verification has attracted many researchers in recent past as it offers useful real life applications. This paper presents role of four types of feature sets as static, kinematics, structural and statistical in nature and these feature sets are analysed in context of online signature verification. The signatures are verified as single trajectory and in combination of multiple sub-trajectories. We have applied feature sets with all possible permutations to signature trajectory and sub-trajectories. We have computed a total of 80 features and categorised to four feature sets on the basis of their behavioural characteristics. The inter-valued symbolic representation technique has been used to clearly understand the impact of each individual feature set or in combinations of feature set. The simulation results are presented using popular benchmark dataset SVC 2004 where both sub-datasets as TASK1 and TASK2 are used. The experimental results show that it is a promising correlation between different feature sets and suggest the optimal combination among several combinations of feature sets.","PeriodicalId":262486,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Biom.","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126492408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Int. J. Biom.Pub Date : 2017-09-18DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2017.10007740
H. Nakouri, M. Limam
{"title":"Incremental robust principal component analysis for face recognition using ridge regression","authors":"H. Nakouri, M. Limam","doi":"10.1504/IJBM.2017.10007740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBM.2017.10007740","url":null,"abstract":"Face recognition efficiency is extremely challenged by image corruption, noise, shadowing and variant face expressions. In this paper, we propose a reliable incremental face recognition algorithm to address this problem. The algorithm is robust to face image misalignment, occlusion, corruption and different style variations. To apply this for large face data streams, the proposed algorithm uses incremental robust principal component analysis (PCA) to regain the intrinsic data of a bunch of images regarding one subject. A novel similarity metric is defined for face recognition and classification. Five different databases and a base of four different criteria are used in the experiments to illustrate the reliability of the proposed method. Experiments point that it outperforms other existing incremental PCA approaches namely incremental singular value decomposition, add block singular value decomposition and candid covariance-free incremental PCA in terms of recognition rate under occlusions, facial expressions and image perspectives.","PeriodicalId":262486,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Biom.","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114070867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Int. J. Biom.Pub Date : 2017-09-18DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2017.10007752
E. Tan, A. Nugroho, M. Galinium
{"title":"Contact lens detection for iris spoofing countermeasure","authors":"E. Tan, A. Nugroho, M. Galinium","doi":"10.1504/IJBM.2017.10007752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBM.2017.10007752","url":null,"abstract":"The development of biometric authentication system should be followed by strengthening to spoofing attempts. Among various identifiers, iris has aroused many attentions due to its uniqueness and stability. Nevertheless, the use of iris for biometric authentication is accompanied by spoofing risk, for example using contact lens. In order to handle the spoofing attempts, its detection is an inevitable part of a recognition system, to reduce the risk of forging system. Cosmetic contact lens is one of most common spoofing materials which is hard to be detected. In this study, weighted local binary pattern (w-LBP) and simplified scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) descriptors were used to extract the feature of the iris, in which segmented using gradient magnitude and Fourier descriptor. Simplified SIFT descriptor is extracted at each pixel of iris image and being used to rank the local binary pattern (LBP) sequence of encoding. The features were then presented to support vector machine (SVM) classifier, for positive vs. negative classification. Positive class means that contact lens was used by a person, and vice versa. The experimental results showed that combining SIFT and w-LBP as features for SVM yielded an accuracy of 84%.","PeriodicalId":262486,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Biom.","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129330400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Int. J. Biom.Pub Date : 2017-09-18DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2017.10007751
Ismahene Dehache, L. Souici-Meslati
{"title":"Immunological classifiers for accelerometer-based gait identification","authors":"Ismahene Dehache, L. Souici-Meslati","doi":"10.1504/IJBM.2017.10007751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBM.2017.10007751","url":null,"abstract":"Research in the field of biometrics is currently oriented towards behavioural modalities. The present study is interested in gait biometrics which occupies an important place due to its various advantages compared with other biometrics. This work suggests an identification system based on gait, using an accelerometer that allows the measurement of acceleration. The proposed approach for recognition is the immunological approach. Three types of classifiers; namely AIRS1, AIRS2 and AIRS parallel are suggested. An improvement on the three classifiers is done specially on the calculation of the affinity by integrating three types of distances: Hamming, Manhattan and Chebychev. The results are very satisfactory emphasising the importance of gait modality and the interest of using immunological approaches in the domain of recognition of persons through behavioural biometrics.","PeriodicalId":262486,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Biom.","volume":"2007 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116938434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}