SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE FOR BIOMETRIC DATA PROCESSING

A system, method and program product for processing biometric data. A biometric data processing system is disclosed that includes: at least one signal acquisition system for collecting biometric input; a feature extraction system for extracting feature vectors from the biometric input; and a support vector machine (SVM) having a plurality of kernel functions, wherein each kernel function is configured for mapping a feature vector to a high dimensional hyperspace structure.