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Item Evolutionary design of Multiquadric radial basis functions neural network for face recognition(IEEE, 2013) Agarwal, Vandana; Bhanot, SurekhaIn this paper, it is proposed to use Multiquadric basis functions at hidden layer of radial basis functions neural networks (RBFNN) for face recognition. The performance of RBFNN depends on the design of the structure of RBFNN, which includes optimal center selection and spread of RBF units, number of neurons at hidden layer, weights etc. Design of hidden layer of RBFNN also includes the choice of basis functions which is proposed to be of Multiquadric basis functions. The shape of Multiquadric basis function plays an important role in the performance of RBFNN in face recognition. A novel evolutionary shape parameter optimization technique inspired by the attractiveness of the natural fireflies is proposed and is used in the design of Multiquadric basis functions for the given face database. The algorithm is tested on two benchmarked face databases ORL and Indian face databases. The proposed technique significantly outperforms the performance of the Gaussian basis functions based RBFNN in terms of face recognition accuracy.Item Firefly Inspired Feature Selection for Face Recognition(IEEE, 2015) Agarwal, Vandana; Bhanot, SurekhaIn this paper, an adaptive technique using Firefly Algorithm for feature selection in face recognition is proposed. The artificial fireflies are designed to represent the feature subset and they move in a hyper dimensional space to obtain the best features. The features are extracted using Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Haar wavelets based Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). The algorithm is validated using benchmark face databases namely ORL and Yale. The proposed algorithm outperforms various existing techniques. The average recognition accuracy using five randomly selected training samples over four independent runs for the ORL is 94.375%. The accuracy using six training images for Yale face database is 99.16%. The effect of parameter 'gamma', specific to Firefly Algorithm on recognition accuracy is also investigated.Item Radial basis function neural network-based face recognition using firefly algorithm(Springer, 2017-02) Agarwal, Vandana; Bhanot, SurekhaThis paper presents an adaptive technique for obtaining centers of the hidden layer neurons of radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) for face recognition. The proposed technique uses firefly algorithm to obtain natural sub-clusters of training face images formed due to variations in pose, illumination, expression and occlusion, etc. Movement of fireflies in a hyper-dimensional input space is controlled by tuning the parameter gamma (γ) of firefly algorithm which plays an important role in maintaining the trade-off between effective search space exploration, firefly convergence, overall computational time and the recognition accuracy. The proposed technique is novel as it combines the advantages of evolutionary firefly algorithm and RBFNN in adaptive evolution of number and centers of hidden neurons. The strength of the proposed technique lies in its fast convergence, improved face recognition performance, reduced feature selection overhead and algorithm stability. The proposed technique is validated using benchmark face databases, namely ORL, Yale, AR and LFW. The average face recognition accuracies achieved using proposed algorithm for the above face databases outperform some of the existing techniques in face recognition.