• DocumentCode
    107335
  • Title

    Thermal hand image segmentation for biometric recognition

  • Author

    Font-Aragones, X. ; Faundez-Zanuy, M. ; Mekyska, J.

  • Author_Institution
    EUP Mataro (TCM), UPC, Barcelona, Spain
  • Volume
    28
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Jun-13
  • Firstpage
    4
  • Lastpage
    14
  • Abstract
    We have seen how to avoid the cold finger areas in order to get a better segmented TH image. These approaches are only necessary when temperatures from the finger are close to the surface. Once the TH image is well segmented we have observed different performance.
  • Keywords
    handwriting recognition; image recognition; image segmentation; TH image segmentation; biometric recognition; cold finger areas; thermal hand image segmentation; Authentication; Biometrics; Face recognitoin; Feature extraction; Hands; Identification; Image segmentation; Temperature measurements; Thermal analysis; Thumb;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0885-8985
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAES.2013.6533739
  • Filename
    6533739