Deep Region of Interest and Feature Extraction Models for Palmprint Verification Using Convolutional Neural Networks Transfer Learning

Palmprint verification is one of the most significant and popular approaches for personal authentication due to its high accuracy and efficiency. Using deep region of interest (ROI) and feature extraction models for palmprint verification, a novel approach is proposed where convolutional neural netw...

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Main Authors: Mahdieh Izadpanahkakhk, Seyyed Mohammad Razavi, Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie, Seyyed Hamid Zahiri, Aurelio Uncini
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Published: MDPI AG 2018-07-01
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/7/1210
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spelling doaj-2e6340e11354461180d4dd05826bf4a52020-11-24T21:49:05ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172018-07-0187121010.3390/app8071210app8071210Deep Region of Interest and Feature Extraction Models for Palmprint Verification Using Convolutional Neural Networks Transfer LearningMahdieh Izadpanahkakhk0Seyyed Mohammad Razavi1Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie2Seyyed Hamid Zahiri3Aurelio Uncini4Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Birjand, Birjand 971481151, IranDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Birjand, Birjand 971481151, IranDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Birjand, Birjand 971481151, IranDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Birjand, Birjand 971481151, IranDepartment of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 00185 Rome, ItalyPalmprint verification is one of the most significant and popular approaches for personal authentication due to its high accuracy and efficiency. Using deep region of interest (ROI) and feature extraction models for palmprint verification, a novel approach is proposed where convolutional neural networks (CNNs) along with transfer learning are exploited. The extracted palmprint ROIs are fed to the final verification system, which is composed of two modules. These modules are (i) a pre-trained CNN architecture as a feature extractor and (ii) a machine learning classifier. In order to evaluate our proposed model, we computed the intersection over union (IoU) metric for ROI extraction along with accuracy, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, and equal error rate (EER) for the verification task.The experiments demonstrated that the ROI extraction module could significantly find the appropriate palmprint ROIs, and the verification results were crucially precise. This was verified by different databases and classification methods employed in our proposed model. In comparison with other existing approaches, our model was competitive with the state-of-the-art approaches that rely on the representation of hand-crafted descriptors. We achieved a IoU score of 93% and EER of 0.0125 using a support vector machine (SVM) classifier for the contact-based Hong Kong Polytechnic University Palmprint (HKPU) database. It is notable that all codes are open-source and can be accessed online.http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/7/1210region of interest extractionpalm print verificationdeep learningconvolutional neural networktransfer learningfeature extraction
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author Mahdieh Izadpanahkakhk
Seyyed Mohammad Razavi
Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie
Seyyed Hamid Zahiri
Aurelio Uncini
spellingShingle Mahdieh Izadpanahkakhk
Seyyed Mohammad Razavi
Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie
Seyyed Hamid Zahiri
Aurelio Uncini
Deep Region of Interest and Feature Extraction Models for Palmprint Verification Using Convolutional Neural Networks Transfer Learning
Applied Sciences
region of interest extraction
palm print verification
deep learning
convolutional neural network
transfer learning
feature extraction
author_facet Mahdieh Izadpanahkakhk
Seyyed Mohammad Razavi
Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie
Seyyed Hamid Zahiri
Aurelio Uncini
author_sort Mahdieh Izadpanahkakhk
title Deep Region of Interest and Feature Extraction Models for Palmprint Verification Using Convolutional Neural Networks Transfer Learning
title_short Deep Region of Interest and Feature Extraction Models for Palmprint Verification Using Convolutional Neural Networks Transfer Learning
title_full Deep Region of Interest and Feature Extraction Models for Palmprint Verification Using Convolutional Neural Networks Transfer Learning
title_fullStr Deep Region of Interest and Feature Extraction Models for Palmprint Verification Using Convolutional Neural Networks Transfer Learning
title_full_unstemmed Deep Region of Interest and Feature Extraction Models for Palmprint Verification Using Convolutional Neural Networks Transfer Learning
title_sort deep region of interest and feature extraction models for palmprint verification using convolutional neural networks transfer learning
publisher MDPI AG
series Applied Sciences
issn 2076-3417
publishDate 2018-07-01
description Palmprint verification is one of the most significant and popular approaches for personal authentication due to its high accuracy and efficiency. Using deep region of interest (ROI) and feature extraction models for palmprint verification, a novel approach is proposed where convolutional neural networks (CNNs) along with transfer learning are exploited. The extracted palmprint ROIs are fed to the final verification system, which is composed of two modules. These modules are (i) a pre-trained CNN architecture as a feature extractor and (ii) a machine learning classifier. In order to evaluate our proposed model, we computed the intersection over union (IoU) metric for ROI extraction along with accuracy, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, and equal error rate (EER) for the verification task.The experiments demonstrated that the ROI extraction module could significantly find the appropriate palmprint ROIs, and the verification results were crucially precise. This was verified by different databases and classification methods employed in our proposed model. In comparison with other existing approaches, our model was competitive with the state-of-the-art approaches that rely on the representation of hand-crafted descriptors. We achieved a IoU score of 93% and EER of 0.0125 using a support vector machine (SVM) classifier for the contact-based Hong Kong Polytechnic University Palmprint (HKPU) database. It is notable that all codes are open-source and can be accessed online.
topic region of interest extraction
palm print verification
deep learning
convolutional neural network
transfer learning
feature extraction
url http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/7/1210
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