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A New Hand Image Database Simultaneously Acquired in Visible, Near-Infrared and Thermal Spectrums

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In this paper, we present a new hand database called Tecnocampus Hand Image Database that includes right hand, palm and dorsal images. All the images have been acquired with three different sensors (visible, near-infrared and thermal). This database consists of 100 people acquired in five different acquisition sessions, two images per session and palm/dorsal sides. The total amount of pictures is 6.000, and it is mainly developed for hand image biometric recognition purposes. In addition, the database has been studied from the information theory point of view, and we found that this highest level of information is achieved in thermal spectrum. Furthermore, a low level of mutual information between different spectrums is also demonstrated. This opens an interesting research field in multi-sensor data fusion.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been supported by FEDER, MEC, TEC2012-38630-C04-03, GACR 102/12/1104, CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0094 and VG20102014033. We also acknowledge Ruben Hernandez-Mingorance for his support during acquisitions. The described research was performed in laboratories supported by the SIX projects; the registration number CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0072, the operational program Research and Development for Innovation.

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  1. EUP Mataró, Tecnocampus, Avda. Ernest Lluch 32, 08302, Mataro, Barcelona, Spain

    Marcos Faundez-Zanuy & Xavier Font-Aragonès

  2. SPLab, Department of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

    Jiri Mekyska

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Faundez-Zanuy, M., Mekyska, J. & Font-Aragonès, X. A New Hand Image Database Simultaneously Acquired in Visible, Near-Infrared and Thermal Spectrums. Cogn Comput 6, 230–240 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-013-9230-3

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