In this study, the authors propose a multimodal biometric system by combining the finger knuckle and finger vein images at feature-level fusion using fractional firefly (FFF) optimisation. Biometric characteristics, like finger knuckle and finger vein are unique and secure. Initially, the features are extracted from the finger knuckle and finger vein images using repeated line tracking method. Then, a newly developed method of feature-level fusion using FFF optimisation is used. This method is utilised to find out the optimal weight score to fuse the extracted feature sets of finger knuckle and finger vein images. Thus, the recognition is carried out by the fused feature set using layered k-SVM (k-support vector machine) which is newly developed by combining the layered SVM classifier and k-neural network classifier. The experimental results are evaluated and the performance is analysed with false acceptance ratio, false rejection ratio and accuracy. The outcome of the proposed FFF optimisation system obtains a higher accuracy of 96%.

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In recent years, several researches are being done to improve the means by which human to machine interaction. With the development of input devices like keyboard, mouse and pen are not sufficient due to this limitation direct use of hand gesture as an input device to provide natural human to machine interaction. The objective of this paper is to implement the vision based hand gesture recognition system to control the movement of robot. We can use of Scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) for extract the keypoint from the gesture image capture by single sensing device. Space incompatibility of SIFT keypoint causes bag of feature approach was introduced. Then use the vector quantization will map the keypoint extracted from SIFT into unified dimensional histogram vector after the K-mean clustering. The histogram vectors as an input to multiclass SVM classifier for recognize the gesture. Generate the grammar apply to the robot to control the movements (Left, Right, Straight ward, Backward, stop) of robot.Keywords-Bag-of-features, Human to machine interaction, Kmean, scale invariant feature transform (SIFT), support vector machine (SVM).

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Purpose Biometric identification system has become emerging research field because of its wide applications in the fields of security. This study (multimodal system) aims to find more applications than the unimodal system because of their high user acceptance value, better recognition accuracy and low-cost sensors. The biometric identification using the finger knuckle and the palmprint finds more application than other features because of its unique features. Design/methodology/approach The proposed model performs the user authentication through the extracted features from both the palmprint and the finger knuckle images. The two major processes in the proposed system are feature extraction and classification. The proposed model extracts the features from the palmprint and the finger knuckle with the proposed HE-Co-HOG model after the pre-processing. The proposed HE-Co-HOG model finds the Palmprint HE-Co-HOG vector and the finger knuckle HE-Co-HOG vector. These features from both the palmprint and the finger knuckle are combined with the optimal weight score from the fractional firefly (FFF) algorithm. The layered k-SVM classifier classifies each person's identity from the fused vector. Findings Two standard data sets with the palmprint and the finger knuckle images were used for the simulation. The simulation results were analyzed in two ways. In the first method, the bin sizes of the HE-Co-HOG vector were varied for the various training of the data set. In the second method, the performance of the proposed model was compared with the existing models for the different training size of the data set. From the simulation results, the proposed model has achieved a maximum accuracy of 0.95 and the lowest false acceptance rate and false rejection rate with a value of 0.1. Originality/value In this paper, the multimodal biometric recognition system based on the proposed HE-Co-HOG with the k-SVM and the FFF is developed. The proposed model uses the palmprint and the finger knuckle images as the biometrics. The development of the proposed HE-Co-HOG vector is done by modifying the Co-HOG with the holoentropy weights.