IMPLEMENTATION OF ACCURATE PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION BY USING PALM PRINT IMAGE PROCESSING

Abstract

Online palmprint recognition and latent palmprint identification are two branches of palmprint studies. The former uses middle-resolution images collected by a digital camera in a well-controlled or contact-based environment with user cooperation for commercial applications and the latter uses highresolution latent palmprints collected in crime scenes for forensic investigation. However, these two branches do not cover some palmprint images which have the potential for forensic investigation. Due to the prevalence of smartphone and consumer camera, more evidence is in the form of digital images taken in uncontrolled and uncooperative environment, e.g., child pornographic images and terrorist images, where the criminals commonly hide or cover their face. However, their palms can be observable. Among various biometrics technologies, palm-print identification has received much attention because of its good performance. Combining the left and right palm-print images to perform multi-biometrics is easy to implement and can obtain better results. Existing systems deployed Line Based Method, Coding Based Method, Subspace Based Methods, Representation Based Method, SIFT Based Method. This work integrated three kinds of scores generated from the left and right palm-print images to perform matching score-level fusion. The first two kinds of scores were, respectively, generated from the left and right palm-print images and can be obtained by any palm-print identification method, whereas the third kind of score was obtained using a specialized algorithm proposed in this paper. As the proposed algorithm carefully takes the nature of the left and right palm-print images into account, it can properly exploit the similarity of the left and right palm-prints of the same subject. Moreover, the proposed weighted fusion scheme allowed perfect identification performance to be obtained in comparison with previous palm-print identification methods.