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http://dx.doi.org/10.5391/JKIIS.2004.14.4.506

A Study on the Extraction of Nail's Region from PC-based Hand-Geometry Recognition System Using GA  

Kim, Young-Tak (한국해양대학교 전자통신공학과 대학원)
Kim, Soo-Jong (동명정보대학교 정보기술원 MPS Lecture Tea)
Park, Ju-Won (한국해양대학교 전자통신공학과 대학)
Lee, Sang-Bae (한국해양대학교 전자통신공학과 대학원)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems / v.14, no.4, 2004 , pp. 506-511 More about this Journal
Abstract
Biometrics is getting more and more attention in recent years for security and other concerns. So far, only fingerprint recognition has seen limited success for on-line security check, since other biometrics verification and identification systems require more complicated and expensive acquisition interfaces and recognition processes. Hand-Geometry has been used for biometric verification and identification because of its acquisition convenience and good performance for verification and identification performance. Hence, it can be a good candidate for online checks. Therefore, this paper proposes a Hand-Geometry recognition system based on geometrical features of hand. From anatomical point of view, human hand can be characterized by its length, width, thickness, geometrical composition, shapes of the palm, and shape and geometry of the fingers. This paper proposes thirty relevant features for a Hand-Geometry recognition system. However, during experimentation, it was discovered that length measured from the tip of the finger was not a reliable feature. Hence, we propose a new technique based on Genetic Algorithm for extraction of the center of nail bottom, in order to use it for the length feature.
Keywords
Hand-Geometry; Nail Bottom; Finger; GA;
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