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Extraction of Finger-Vein Patterns Using Maximum Curvature Points in Image Profiles Naoto MIURA Akio NAGASAKA Takafumi MIYATAKE Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Vol.E90-D No.8 pp.1185-1194 Publication Date: 2007/08/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1361 DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.8.1185 Print ISSN: 0916-8532 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Image Recognition and Understanding) Category: Keyword: finger-vein, personal identification, feature extraction, image profile, Full Text: PDF(1.3MB)>>
Summary: A biometrics system for identifying individuals using the pattern of veins in a finger was previously proposed. The system has the advantage of being resistant to forgery because the pattern is inside a finger. Infrared light is used to capture an image of a finger that shows the vein patterns, which have various widths and brightnesses that change temporally as a result of fluctuations in the amount of blood in the vein, depending on temperature, physical conditions, etc. To robustly extract the precise details of the depicted veins, we developed a method of calculating local maximum curvatures in cross-sectional profiles of a vein image. This method can extract the centerlines of the veins consistently without being affected by the fluctuations in vein width and brightness, so its pattern matching is highly accurate. Experimental results show that our method extracted patterns robustly when vein width and brightness fluctuated, and that the equal error rate for personal identification was 0.0009%, which is much better than that of conventional methods. | ||||||||||
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