Research Article

A New Evolutionary-Incremental Framework for Feature Selection

Table 4

Comparison of the proposed evolutionary based feature selection algorithms for face recognition.

MethodNumber of generationsNumber of selected featuresAccuracy of face recognition on set A (training)Accuracy of face recognition on set A (test)Time

Variable length GA1159098%89%43 hours
Evolutionary-incremental GA3003798%92%30 hours
Evolutionary-incremental IWO5302598%93%28 hours