A Robust and Fast Computation Touchless Palm Print Recognition System Using LHEAT and the IFkNCN Classifier

Mobile implementation is a current trend in biometric design.This paper proposes a new approach to palm print recognition, in which smart phones are used to capture palm print images at a distance.Atouchless systemwas developed because of public demand for privacy and sanitation. Robust hand trackin...

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Main Authors: Jaafar, Haryati (Author), Ibrahim, Salwani (Author), Ramli, Dzati Athiar (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation , 2015.
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Summary:Mobile implementation is a current trend in biometric design.This paper proposes a new approach to palm print recognition, in which smart phones are used to capture palm print images at a distance.Atouchless systemwas developed because of public demand for privacy and sanitation. Robust hand tracking, image enhancement, and fast computation processing algorithms are required for effective touchless and mobile-based recognition. In this project, hand tracking and the region of interest (ROI) extractionmethod were discussed. A sliding neighborhood operation with local histogram equalization, followed by a local adaptive thresholding or LHEAT approach, was proposed in the image enhancement stage to manage low-quality palm print images. To accelerate the recognition process, a new classifier, improved fuzzy-based k nearest centroid neighbor (IFkNCN), was implemented. By removing outliers and reducing the amount of training data, this classifier exhibited faster computation. Our experimental results demonstrate that a touchless palm print system using LHEAT and IFkNCN achieves a promising recognition rate of 98.64%.