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http://dx.doi.org/10.17661/jkiiect.2017.10.3.249

Virtual core point detection and ROI extraction for finger vein recognition  

Lee, Ju-Won (Dept. of Medical Eng., Andong Science College)
Lee, Byeong-Ro (Gyeongnam Nattional Univ. of Sci. and Tech.)
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The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology / v.10, no.3, 2017 , pp. 249-255 More about this Journal
Abstract
The finger vein recognition technology is a method to acquire a finger vein image by illuminating infrared light to the finger and to authenticate a person through processes such as feature extraction and matching. In order to recognize a finger vein, a 2D mask-based two-dimensional convolution method can be used to detect a finger edge but it takes too much computation time when it is applied to a low cost micro-processor or micro-controller. To solve this problem and improve the recognition rate, this study proposed an extraction method for the region of interest based on virtual core points and moving average filtering based on the threshold and absolute value of difference between pixels without using 2D convolution and 2D masks. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, 600 finger vein images were used to compare the edge extraction speed and accuracy of ROI extraction between the proposed method and existing methods. The comparison result showed that a processing speed of the proposed method was at least twice faster than those of the existing methods and the accuracy of ROI extraction was 6% higher than those of the existing methods. From the results, the proposed method is expected to have high processing speed and high recognition rate when it is applied to inexpensive microprocessors.
Keywords
Finger vein; edge extraction; Region of Interest; Virtual core point;
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