Iris Recognition using Multi Objective Artificial Bee Colony Optimization Algorithm with Autoencoder Classifier

In recent decades, iris recognition is a trustworthy and important biometric model for human recognition. Criminal to commercial products, citizen confirmation and border control are few application areas. The research work is a deep learning based integrated model for accurate iris detection and recognition. Initially, eye images are considered from two datasets, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Automation (CASIA) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi v1.0. Iris region is accurately segmented using Daugman’s algorithm and Circular Hough Transform (CHT). Feature extraction is hybrid that is performed using Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DTCWT), Gabor filter, Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) from the segmented iris regions. A Multiobjective Artificial Bee Colony (MABC) algorithm is proposed to eliminate noisy and redundant feature vectors by estimating consistent information. In MABC algorithm, two multi-objective functions are formulated as reduction in number of features and classification error rate. The selected active feature vectors are given as input to autoencoder classification for iris recognition. The experimental outcome shows that MABC-autoencoder model obtained 99.67% and 98.73% accuracy on CASIA-Iris, and IIT Delhi v1.0 iris datasets. Performance evaluation is based on accuracy, specificity, Critical Success Index (CSI), sensitivity, Fowlkes Mallows (FM) index, and Mathews Correlation Coefficient (MCC).