Research Article

Combining Biometric Fractal Pattern and Particle Swarm Optimization-Based Classifier for Fingerprint Recognition

Table 2

Compares the results of the proposed method and other methods.

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The number of attrition lines012~345

Proposed PSO-based classifierAccuracy (%)100%100%100%16.7%0.00%
Average output1.00001.00000.95830.16670.0000
Threshold value0.950.950.91

LMS-based classifierAccuracy (%)100%100%100%16.7%0.00%
Average output0.99980.99200.90440.29810.0000
Threshold value0.950.950.86

Traditional PSO-based classifierAccuracy (%)100%100%75%16.7%0.00%
Average output0.99980.99200.83100.31870.0000
Threshold value0.950.950.79

Note: (1) Accuracy(%) = (Nr/Nt)×100%, Nr: the number of correctly discriminated fingerprints; Nt: total number of fingerprints.
(2)  Average  Output=(1/30)j=130Oj(j).
(3) Symbol—means that overall outputs of the classifier are close, and the threshold values is unable to determine.