Finger Vein Identification Based on Minutiae Feature Extraction with Spurious Minutiae Removal

Abstract

Finger vein technology is the newest biometric technology which utilizes the vein pattern which is hidden under the human finger for identification. As these patterns are hidden under the skin surface, they provide a huge privacy consideration, and are hence extremely difficult to forge. An approach to perform finger vein identification based on extracting minutiae features and the spurious minutiae removal is presented in this work. Minutiae feature extraction includes the extraction of end points and bifurcation points from the skeletal patterns of vein and the removal of spurious or false minutiae, makes the identification more accurate.