Multimodal Biometric Recognition Using Iris and Face Features

Multimodal biometrics has recently gained interest over single biometric modalities. This interest stems from the fact that this technique offers improvements in recognition and more security. In this ongoing research programme, we propose a new feature extraction technique for a biometric system based on face and iris recognition. The extraction of iris and facial features is performed using the Discrete Wavelet Transform combined with the Singular Value Decomposition. Merging the relevant characteristics of the two modalities is used to create a pattern for each individual in the dataset. The evaluation process is performed using two datasets (i.e., Faces94 Faces dataset and IIT Delhi Iris dataset). The experimental results carried out in this programme showed the robustness of the proposed technique.