Integrating GWTM and BAT algorithm for face recognition in low-resolution images

In biometrics, face recognition is one of the important identification methods with various applications such as, video surveillance, defence, human/computer interactions and many more. The current face recognition systems perform well using the frontal images with high resolution. In contrast, the utilisation of low-resolution (LR) images degrades the performance of face recognition systems. Hence, this paper integrates the Gabor filter?+?wavelet?+?texture (GWTM) operator and the BAT algorithm to increase the performance, while deploying the LR images. The proposed algorithm integrates the uniqueness of Gabor features, the robustness of local features and the wavelet features to handle the inter-person and intra-person variations. This paper utilises the spherical SVM classifier to enhance the recognition performance. Finally, the proposed GWTM operator is compared with other existing algorithms such as, GOM, LBP and LGP based on the parameters of accuracy, FAR and FRR. The proposed GWTM operator attains the highest accuracy of 95% and a minimum FAR of 5%. The results prove that the proposed GWTM yields a performance improvement of 5, 3, 4 and 15% over the GOM, LBP, LGP and GWTM, respectively, in the absence of the BAT algorithm.