Biometric Verification Using Palmprintsand Vein-patterns of Palm-dorsum

• Main Authors: Chih-Lung Lin, 林志隆
• Other Authors: Kuo-Chin Fan
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23254823016131579572

博士 === 國立中央大學 === 資訊工程研究所 === 92 === Recently, personal verification based on biometric features gradually becomes an important and highly demand technique for security access systems. During the past, numerous literatures discussing biometric verification using palm features have been reported. However, they are all constrained by some limitations, such as the utilization of docking devices to constrain the palm position while acquiring palmprint images, the applying of inked palmprint images as the objects, and the requirements of adequate lighting conditions, etc. These limitations hinder the conveniences of users and the practicalities of verification methods. In this dissertation, novel methods are devised and developed to alleviate or remove theses limitations. In our work, the limitation imposed by the docking devices is removed completely. Furthermore, the inconveniences introduced by the applying of inked palmprint images as objects are avoided. Finally, the restrictions of lighting conditions are also avoided. In this dissertation, we propose two approaches of biometric verification based on the palm features, which are principal palmprints and vein-patterns of palm-dorsa, respectively. The crucial characteristics of the proposed methods are that no prior knowledge about the objects is necessary, the parameters can be set automatically, and the limitations as mentioned above can be alleviated. In the palmprint verification approach, scanner is adopted as the input device for capturing palmprint images with the advantages of no palm inking and no requirement of docking device. Two finger-webs are automatically selected as the datum points to define the Region of Interest (ROI) in the palmprint images. Next, hierarchical decomposition is employed to extract the principal palmprint features inside the ROI, which includes direction and multiresolution decompositions. The former extracts principal palmprint features from each ROI. The latter processes the images with principal palmprint features to extract the dominant points from the images at each resolution. Finally, normalized correlation function is utilized to evaluate the similarity between two palmprint images. Experiments were conducted on a wide variety of palmprint images and the results are satisfactory with acceptable accuracy rate (FRR: 0.75% and FAR: 0.56%). The results reveal that our proposed approach is feasible and effective in palmprint verification without the needs of docking devices or palm inking. In the vein-patterns verification approach, an infrared (IR) camera is adopted as the input device to capture the thermal images of palm-dorsa. Likewise, two of the finger-webs are automatically selected as the datum points to define the Region of Interest (ROI) on the thermal images. Within each ROI, feature points of the vein-patterns (FPVPs) are extracted by modifying the basic tool of watershed transformation based on the properties of thermal images. According to the heat conduction law (the Fourier law), multiple features can be extracted from each FPVP for verification. Multiresolution representations of images with FPVPs are obtained using multiple multiresolution filters (MRFs) that extract the dominant points by filtering miscellaneous features for each FPVP. A hierarchical integrating function is then applied to integrate multiple features and multiresolution representations. The former is integrated by an inter-to-intra personal variation ratio and the latter is integrated by a stack filter. We also introduce a logical and reasonable method to select a trained threshold for verification. The proposed approach can achieve an acceptable accuracy rate (FRR: 2.3% and FAR: 2.3%). The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approach is valid and effective for vein-pattern verification.