• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.27-34
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• 2010

This paper proposes an efficient method for verifying palmprint which is captured at the natural interface without any physical restriction. The location and orientation of the region of interest (ROI) in palm images are variously appeared due to the translation and rotation of hand. Therefore, it is necessary to extract the ROI stably for palmprint recognition. This paper presents a method that can extract the ROI, which is based on the reference points that are located at the center of the crotch segments between index finger and middle finger and between ring finger and little finger. It also proposes a palmprint recognition method using the histogram of local binary patterns (LBP). Experiments for evaluating the performance of the proposed method were performed on 1,597 palmprint images acquired from 100 different persons. The experimental results showed that ROI was correctly extracted at the rate of 99.5% and the equal error rate (EER) and the decidability index d' indicating the performance of palmprint verification were 0.136 and 3.539, respectively. These results demonstrate that the proposed method is robust to the variations of the translation and rotation of hand.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.15-21
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• 2011

This paper proposes a new approach to palmprint verification based on the gradient, in which a palm image is considered to be a three-dimensional terrain. Principal lines and wrinkles make deep and shallow valleys on a palm landscape. Then the steepest slope direction in each local area is first computed using the Kirsch operator, after which an orientation map is created that represents the dominant slope direction of each pixel. In this study, three orientation maps were made with different scales to represent local and global gradient information. Next, feature matching based on pixel-unit comparison was performed. The experimental results showed that the proposed method is superior to several state-of-the-art methods. In addition, the verification could be greatly improved by fusing orientation maps with different scales.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.1437-1450
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• 1992

This paper describes the feature extraction of the interdigital regions of palm, and proposes a personal verification algorithm using the extracted features and the pattern types of those. The procedures of the feature extraction are as follows : first, the interdigital region is partitioned into several subregions, examining the phase of rigdes in each subregion, deciding the direction of that phase, and making the direction matrix of the region, we analyze this direction matrix to contain a feature pattern, and then, yield the first core. Second, applying the thinning to around the first core and tracing the thinned ridges, we yield the feature pattern types and second cores. Finally, the feature patterns coordinates included all of them are built. Then, distances and directions from each second core reaching to all the others are yielded from that coordinates. These informations are used to make a feature parameter. In our verification algorithm, such pattern types, the numbers of feature patterns, theses positions and feature parameters are used to analyze.