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Automated biometrics identification using finger vein images has increasingly generated interests among researchers with emerging applications in human biometrics. Prior efforts in the biometrics literature have only investigated the near-infrared finger patterns which only consist of finger vein patterns. This paper investigates the possible usage of finger patterns to which finger dorsal texture information is added i.e. hybrid patterns. Including both the information of finger vein and finger dorsal textures, the hybrid patterns can be used as independent biometric patterns. A completely automated approach for the hybrid finger patterns is developed with key steps for region of interest segmentation, images normalization, feature extraction and robust matching. This paper also introduces an available hybrid finger pattern database from 126 different subjects. The efforts to develop automated hybrid finger pattern matching scheme achieve promising results and provide new insights on the finger pattern identification.
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Yang, W., Ji, W., Liao, Q. (2015). Significance of Being Unique from Finger Patterns: Exploring Hybrid Near-infrared Finger Vein and Finger Dorsal Patterns in Verifying Human Identities. In: Yang, J., Yang, J., Sun, Z., Shan, S., Zheng, W., Feng, J. (eds) Biometric Recognition. CCBR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9428. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25417-3_62
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