Hybrid robust iris recognition approach using iris image pre‐processing, two‐dimensional gabor features and multi‐layer perceptron neural network/PSO

Computational intelligence is employed to solve factual and complicated global problems, though neural networks (NNs) and evolutionary computing have also affected these issues. Biometric traits are applicable for detecting crime in security systems because they offer attractive features such as stability and uniqueness. Although various methods have been proposed for this objective, feature shortcomings such as computational complexity, long run times, and high memory consumption remain. The current study proposes a novel human iris recognition approach based on a multi‐layer perceptron NN and particle swarm optimisation (PSO) algorithms to train the network in order to increase generalisation performance. A combination of these algorithms was used as a classifier. A pre‐processing step was performed on the iris images to improve the results and two‐dimensional gabor kernel feature extraction was applied. The data was normalised, trained, and tested using the proposed method. A PSO algorithm was applied to train the NN for data classification. The experimental results show that the proposed method performs better than many other well‐known techniques. The benchmark Chinese Academy of Science and Institute of Automation (CASIA)‐iris V3 and Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) machine learning repository datasets were used for testing and comparison.