Finger vein recognition based on (2D)² PCA and metric learning

J Biomed Biotechnol. 2012:2012:324249. doi: 10.1155/2012/324249. Epub 2012 May 20.

Abstract

Finger vein recognition is a promising biometric recognition technology, which verifies identities via the vein patterns in the fingers. In this paper, (2D)² PCA is applied to extract features of finger veins, based on which a new recognition method is proposed in conjunction with metric learning. It learns a KNN classifier for each individual, which is different from the traditional methods where a fixed threshold is employed for all individuals. Besides, the SMOTE technology is adopted to solve the class-imbalance problem. Our experiments show that the proposed method is effective by achieving a recognition rate of 99.17%.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Biometric Identification / methods*
  • Databases, Factual
  • Female
  • Fingers / blood supply*
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods
  • Male
  • Models, Biological
  • Neural Networks, Computer*
  • Principal Component Analysis*