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Biometrics has emerged as a powerful technology for person authentication in various scenarios including forensic and civilian applications. Deployment of biometric solutions that use cues from multiple modalities enhances the reliability and robustness of authentication necessary to meet the increasingly stringent security requirements. However, there are two drawbacks typically associated with multimodal biometrics. Firstly, the image acquisition process in such systems is not very user-friendly, primarily due to the time and effort required to capture biometric samples belonging to multiple modalities. Secondly, the overall cost is higher as they employ multiple biometric sensors. To overcome these drawbacks, we employ a single NIR sensor-based image acquisition in the proposed approach for hand-vein recognition. From the input hand image, a palm-vein and four finger-vein subimages are extracted. These images are then enhanced by CLAHE and transformed into illumination invariant representation using center-symmetric local binary pattern (CS-LBP). Further, a hierarchical non-rigid matching technique inspired by the architecture of deep convolutional networks is employed for matching the CS-LBP features. Finally, weighted sum rule-based matching score-level fusion is performed to combine the palm-vein and the four finger-vein modalities. A set of rigorous experiments has been performed on an in-house database collected from the left and right hands of 185 subjects and the publicly available CASIA dataset. The proposed approach achieves equal error rates of 0.13% and 1.21%, and rank-1 identification rates of 100% and 100% on the in-house and CASIA datasets, respectively. Additionally, we compare the proposed approach with the state-of-the-art techniques proposed for vascular biometric recognition in the literature. The important findings are (1) the proposed approach outperforms all the existing techniques considered in this study, (2) the fusion of palm-vein and finger-vein modalities consistently leads to better performance for all the feature extraction techniques considered in this work. (3) Furthermore, our experimental results also suggest that considering the constituent palm-vein and finger-vein images instead of the entire hand-vein images achieves better performance.
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This work was supported in part by CSIR-INDIA under grant no. 22(0697)/15/EMR-II.
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Bhilare, S., Jaswal, G., Kanhangad, V. et al. Single-sensor hand-vein multimodal biometric recognition using multiscale deep pyramidal approach. Machine Vision and Applications 29, 1269–1286 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-018-0959-2
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