{"title":"Knuckle Biometrics Based on Texture Features","authors":"M. Choraś, R. Kozik","doi":"10.1109/ETCHB.2010.5559285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETCHB.2010.5559285","url":null,"abstract":"One of the current trends in biometric human identification is the development of new emerging modalities. One of such promising modalities is knuckle biometrics. In this paper new developments in human identification based on knuckle biometrics are presented. The major contribution of this paper are texture-based knuckle features and their evaluation using IIT Delhi knuckle image database.","PeriodicalId":174704,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Workshop on Emerging Techniques and Challenges for Hand-Based Biometrics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123664894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comparative Study of Combining Multiple Features for Fingerprint Recognition","authors":"Fanglin Chen, Jie Zhou","doi":"10.1109/ETCHB.2010.5559281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETCHB.2010.5559281","url":null,"abstract":"A number of different features, besides minutiae, have been used for fingerprint matching. There include orientation-based minutia descriptor, FingerCode, ridge feature map, orientation map, and density map. Previous studies have shown that the performance of a fingerprint recognition system can be improved by combining these features with minutiae through a fusion strategy. In this paper, a comparative study of combining multiple features is carried out on a large database. Based on the experimental results, some useful conclusions can be drawn: (1) A larger improvement can usually be obtained as we combine more features; (2) However, beyond 4 features, the performance improvement is very small. (3) MD (minutiae and orientation-based minutia descriptor) are the best of two-feature combinations. It is interesting that the single feature D (minutia descriptor) does not perform the best, but the combination of MD (minutiae and minutia descriptor) performs very well. (4) Although the combinations of MO and MD performs the best among the two-feature combinations, MDO performs not so good as MDR (minutiae, minutia descriptor, and ridge density map) due to the correlativeness between D and O. These observations are helpful for designing practical fingerprint matching systems.","PeriodicalId":174704,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Workshop on Emerging Techniques and Challenges for Hand-Based Biometrics","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122104836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mayank Vatsa, R. Singh, S. Bharadwaj, H. Bhatt, R. Mashruwala
{"title":"Analyzing Fingerprints of Indian Population Using Image Quality: A UIDAI Case Study","authors":"Mayank Vatsa, R. Singh, S. Bharadwaj, H. Bhatt, R. Mashruwala","doi":"10.1109/ETCHB.2010.5559279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETCHB.2010.5559279","url":null,"abstract":"In large scale deployment of fingerprint recognition systems, especially in Indian environment, there are some challenges involved. Along with sensor noise and poor image quality, presence of scars, warts, and deteriorating ridge/minutiae patterns in fingerprints from rural population affects the data distribution. In other words, quality of fingerprint patterns, particularly belonging to rural Indian population, may differ from standard urban or western population and may be difficult to process. Since there is no study that analyzes fingerprint images in Indian context, this paper presents an analytical study using standard fingerprint image quality assessment tool and fingerprint databases collected from the rural and urban Indian population. On a database of over 0.25 million images, we observed that the worn and damaged patterns lead to poor quality ridges and therefore can affect the performance. Also, region specific causes such as manual labor and Lawsonia Inermis also degrade the quality of fingerprints.","PeriodicalId":174704,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Workshop on Emerging Techniques and Challenges for Hand-Based Biometrics","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129418359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multispectral Palmprint Recognition Using Quaternion Principal Component Analysis","authors":"Xingpeng Xu, Zhenhua Guo","doi":"10.1109/ETCHB.2010.5559287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETCHB.2010.5559287","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract-Palmprint has been widely used in personal recognition. To improve the performance of the existing palmprint recognition system, multispectral palmprint recognition system has been proposed and designed. This paper presents a method of representing the multispectral palmprint images by quaternion and extracting features using the quaternion principal components analysis (QPCA) to achieve better performance in recognition. A data acquisition device is employed to capture the palmprint images under Red, Green, Blue and near-infrared (NIR) illuminations in less than 1s. QPCA is used to extract features of multispectral palmprint images. The dissimilarity between two palmprint images is measured by the Euclidean distance. The experiment shows that a higher recognition rate can be achieved when we use QPCA. Given 3000 testing samples from 500 palms, the best GAR is 98.13%.","PeriodicalId":174704,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Workshop on Emerging Techniques and Challenges for Hand-Based Biometrics","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124173572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hand-Based Biometrics Fusing Palmprint and Finger-Knuckle-Print","authors":"L. Shen, L. Bai, Z. Ji","doi":"10.1109/ETCHB.2010.5559284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETCHB.2010.5559284","url":null,"abstract":"Although biometrics technology has progressed substantially, its performance is still to be improved for real applications. This paper aims to improve the accuracy of personal identification, when only single sample is registered as template, by integrating multiple hand-based biometrics, i.e. palmprint and finger-knuckle-print. To make fusion much easier, the same feature, so called fusion code, and decision level fusion strategy are used. Experimental results show that much better performance than single modal biometrics has been achieved.","PeriodicalId":174704,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Workshop on Emerging Techniques and Challenges for Hand-Based Biometrics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124266712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caimao Yuan, Dongmei Sun, Di Liu, Siu-Yeung Cho, Yanqiang Zhang
{"title":"A Research on Feature Selection and Fusion in Palmprint Recognition","authors":"Caimao Yuan, Dongmei Sun, Di Liu, Siu-Yeung Cho, Yanqiang Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ETCHB.2010.5559290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETCHB.2010.5559290","url":null,"abstract":"In the palmprint identification system, feature fusion has been emerging an effective way to improve system performance. Feature vectors extracted from palmprint and fusion strategy are key factors in this procedure. This paper discusses issues about the two aspects respectively. (1) The performance will decline considerably as the number of categories increase. This is determined by the intrinsic characteristics of the selected feature vectors. To overcome this problem, we propose a feature selection method based on K-L distance between feature vectors of each person and the population in each dimension. Experimental results show that the performance of the system keeps a stable level when the categories increase. (2) Whether the fusion of different feature vectors can bring improved performance, it depends on which feature vectors should be chosen. For feature level fusion (FLF), feature vectors should have weak correlation between each other. In this paper, we studied the correlation based on Spearman correlations coefficient. If the matrix reflects a strong correlation, this fusion strategy should be a failure. We test two fusion strategies in experiment. A) Feature vectors extracted by principle components analysis method (PCA) plus feature vectors extracted by PCA method from images after DCT transform. B) Feature vectors extracted by PCA method plus feature vectors extracted by independent components analysis (ICA) method. Experimental results show that strategy B brings an improved performance, for the features vectors in this strategy with weak correlation.","PeriodicalId":174704,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Workshop on Emerging Techniques and Challenges for Hand-Based Biometrics","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128512391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combining Level-3 Features with Perspiration Pattern: Extended Database Results","authors":"A. Abhyankar, S. Schuckers","doi":"10.1109/ETCHB.2010.5559280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETCHB.2010.5559280","url":null,"abstract":"Level-3 fingerprint features from fingerprint images like pores are difficult to capture and detect, and involve high resolution scanners with higher dpi count. However, these features provide finer information about a fingerprint characteristics. Furthermore, fingerprint pores may be useful in determining liveness of fingerprint in order to prevent spoofing of fingerprint devices. In this study fingerprint pores along the ridges are used for fingerprint matching. Wavelet based fingerprint enhancement techniques are implemented to ease detection of the level-3 features. Delaunay triangulation based alignment and matching of the fingerprints is performed. The pores are checked for the liveness by perspiration activity in the time series captures. The developed matching scheme is tested for the high resolution data (Crossmatch 1000 dpi and Identix 686 dpi) for 114 live and spoof fingerprint classes. ROC is plotted and equal error rates of 1.27% and 3.32% were obtained for Crossmatch and Identix scanners respectively.","PeriodicalId":174704,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Workshop on Emerging Techniques and Challenges for Hand-Based Biometrics","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115675399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biometric Identification through Hand Vein Patterns","authors":"A. Yuksel, L. Akarun, B. Sankur","doi":"10.1109/SIU.2010.5652148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIU.2010.5652148","url":null,"abstract":"Vein pattern is the vast network of blood vessels underneath a person's skin. These patterns in the hands are assumed to be unique to each individual and they do not change over time except in size. The properties of uniqueness, stability and strong immunity to forgery of the vein patterns make it a potentially good biometric trait. In this study, we present a novel biometric technique based on the statistical processing of the hand vein patterns. We considered the performance of four alternative feature sets and explored their fusion. The performance of the proposed algorithms was tested on a database of hand veins captured in the near infrared band and collected from 100 people. Our data collection is more realistic in that subjects had to undergo the procedures of holding a bag, pressing an elastic ball and cooling with ice, all exercises that force changes in the vein patterns. Our hand vein biometric tool outperforms the nearest competitor; furthermore tests of simulating real life conditions reveal the fusion scheme to be adequately robust.","PeriodicalId":174704,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Workshop on Emerging Techniques and Challenges for Hand-Based Biometrics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127805959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}