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Gabor Wavelets in Behavioral Biometrics

Gabor Wavelets in Behavioral Biometrics
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Author(s): M. Ashraful Amin (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)and Hong Yan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 30
Source title: Behavioral Biometrics for Human Identification: Intelligent Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Liang Wang (University of Bath, United Kingdom)and Xin Geng (Southeast University, China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-725-6.ch006

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Abstract

The Gabor wavelets are employed regularly in various biometrics applications because of their biological relevance and computational properties. These wavelets have kernels similar to the 2D receptive field profiles of the mammalian cortical simple cells. They exhibit desirable characteristics of spatial locality and orientation selectivity, and are optimally localized in the space and frequency domains. Physiological, biometric systems such as face, fingerprint, and iris based human identification have shown great improvement in identification accuracies if Gabor wavelets are used for feature extraction. Moreover, some behavioral biometric systems such as speaker and gait based applications have shown more than 7% increase in identification accuracies. In this study, we provide a brief discussion on the origin of Gabor wavelets, then an illustration of “how to use Gabor wavelets” to extract features for a generic biometric application is discussed. We also provide an implementation pseudocode for the wavelet. It also offers an elaborate discussion on biometric applications with specific emphasis on behavioral biometric systems that have used Gabor wavelets. We also provide guideline for some biometric systems that have not yet applied Gabor wavelets for feature extraction.

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