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Abstract : Biometric recognition has become a common and reliable way to authenticate the identity of a person. Multimodal biometric system utilizes two or more individual modalities so as to improve the recognition accuracy. The key to multimodal biometrics is the fusion of the various biometric data after feature extraction. In this paper, score level fusion technique for multi-modal biometric recognition using Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) based Neural Network (NN) is proposed. The technique consists of two phases namely feature extraction phase and score fusion phase. Features are extracted from the fingerprint, face and iris modalities in the feature extraction phase. Fusion of score value is carried out after obtaining the individual matching scores from the three modalities. Fusion of scores is based on neural network where, ABC algorithm is used as a training algorithm and based on the scores obtained from ABC-based neural network, the recognition is done. The implementation is done using MATLAB and the performance of the proposed technique is evaluated using FRR, FAR, accuracy and ROC curve. The proposed technique is compared with KNN technique and from the results we can see that our proposed technique has achieved better results by having lower FRR and FAR values and higher accuracy measure. © 2013 Praise Worthy Prize S.r.l. - All rights reserved.