Colour-based palmprint verification - An experiment

Author

Fratric, I. ; Ribaric, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Zagreb Univ., Zagreb

fYear

2008

fDate

5-7 May 2008

Firstpage

890

Lastpage

895

Abstract

This paper presents biometric verification experiments based on palm colour information. Feasibility of colour components from several different colour models (RGB, normalized rgb, HSL, YUV, CIE XYZ, CIE LAB and Hunter LAB) for the purpose of biometric recognition was determined. According to the recognition rate, feature vectors based on normalized r and normalized b colour components are selected. Fusion at the matching score level is used to improve verification accuracy. Experimental results suggest colour can be used as a highly discriminatory characteristic, which in combination with other palm characteristics (principal lines, palm geometry, appearance-based features) enables the design of a biometric system for medium/high security applications.

Keywords

biomimetics; image colour analysis; image recognition; CIE LAB; CIE XYZ; HSL; Hunter LAB; RGB; YUV; biometric recognition; biometric system; biometric verification experiments; colour-based palmprint verification; feature vectors; normalized rgb; palm colour information; Biometrics; Face detection; Face recognition; Feature extraction; Geometry; Image segmentation; Information security; Intelligent systems; Microelectronics; Neural networks; Biometrics; Colour; Palmprint; Verification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 2008. MELECON 2008. The 14th IEEE Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Ajaccio

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1632-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1633-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.2008.4618550

Filename

4618550