Evolutionary algorithms application analysis in biometric systems

Abstract

Wide usage of biometric information for person identity verification purposes, terrorist acts prevention measures and authentication process simplification in computer systems has raised significant attention to reliability and efficiency of biometric systems. Modern biometric systems still face many reliability and efficiency related issues such as reference database search speed, errors while recognizing of biometric information or automating biometric feature extraction. Current scientific investigations show that application of evolutionary algorithms may significantly improve biometric systems. In this article we provide a comprehensive review of main scientific research done in sphere of evolutionary algorithm application for biometric system parameter improvement.