Hierarchical particle filter tracking algorithm based on multi-feature fusion

A hierarchical particle filter（HPF） framework based on multi-feature fusion is proposed.The proposed HPF effectively uses different feature information to avoid the tracking failure based on the single feature in a complicated environment.In this approach,the Harris algorithm is introduced to detect the corner points of the object,and the corner matching algorithm based on singular value decomposition is used to compute the firstorder weights and make particles centralize in the high likelihood area.Then the local binary pattern（LBP） operator is used to build the observation model of the target based on the color and texture features,by which the second-order weights of particles and the accurate location of the target can be obtained.Moreover,a backstepping controller is proposed to complete the whole tracking system.Simulations and experiments are carried out,and the results show that the HPF algorithm with the backstepping controller achieves stable and accurate tracking with good robustness in complex environments.

Performance evaluation of high frequency sub-bands of wavelet transform for palmprint recognition

Wavelet decomposition has been applied in palmprint recognition successfully. However, only the low frequency sub-band was used for further feature extraction, while the high frequency sub-bands were consid2 ered to be unsuitable for palmprint recognition due to their sensitivity to noise and shape distortion. In this pa- per, we firstly investigate the performances of all the sub-bands by using principal component analysis （PCA） on the BJTU and PolyU palmprint databases, and then use mean filtering to enhance the robustness of the high frequency sub-bands. We find that the preprocessed high frequency sub-bands not only can be used for palm- print recognition but also contain complementary information with the low frequency sub-band. The experimental results show that the performances of the horizontal and vertical high frequency sub-bands can be promoted up to a competitive level, and the fusion scheme, which combines the matching scores of high frequency sub-bands with that of low frequency sub-band, is superior to the conventional recognition methods.

Multimodal Biometric Score Fusion Using Gaussian Mixture Model and Monte Carlo Method

Multimodal biometric fusion is gaining more attention among researchers in recent days. As multimodal biometric system consolidates the information from multiple biometric sources, the effective fusion of information obtained at score level is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a framework for optimal fusion of match scores based on Gaussian Mixture Mode] （GMM） and Monte Carlo sampling based hypothesis testing. The proposed fusion approach has the ability to handle： 1） small size of match scores as is more commonly encountered in biometric fusion, and 2） arbitrary distribution of match scores which is more pronounced when discrete scores and multimodal features are present. The proposed fusion scheme is compared with well established schemes such as Likelihood Ratio （LR） method and weighted SUM rule. Extensive experiments carried out on five different multimodal biometric databases indicate that the proposed fusion scheme achieves higher performance as compared with other contemporary state of art fusion techniques.