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A Thermal Vein Pattern Verification System

Lingyu Wang, Graham Leedham

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Abstract

Many biometrics, such as face, fingerprint and iris images, have been studied extensively for personal verification purposes in the past few decades. However, verification using vein patterns is less developed compared to other human traits. A new personal verification system using the thermal-imaged vein pattern in the back of the hand is presented in the paper. The system consists of five individual steps:Data Acquisition, Image Enhancement, Vein Pattern Segmentation, Skeletonization and Matching. Unlike most biometric systems that carry out comparisons based on a pre-selected feature set, this system directly recognizes the shapes of the vein pattern by measuring their Line-Segment Hausdorff Distance. Preliminary testing on a database containing 108 different images has been carried out and all the images are correctly recognized.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition and Data Mining: Proceedings of the third International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, ICAPR 2005
EditorsSameer Singh, Maneesha Singh, Chid Apte
Place of PublicationBerlin, Germany
PublisherSpringer
Pages58-65
ISBN (Print)3540288333, 9783540288336, 3540287574, 9783540287575
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
EventICAPR 2005: 3rd International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition - Bath, United Kingdom
Duration: 22 Aug 200525 Aug 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer
Number3686
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceICAPR 2005: 3rd International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition
CityBath, United Kingdom
Period22/08/0525/08/05

Keywords

  • Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
  • Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

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