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IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement | 2010

An Online System of Multispectral Palmprint Verification

David Zhang; Zhenhua Guo; Guangming Lu; Lei Zhang; Wangmeng Zuo

Palmprint is a unique and reliable biometric characteristic with high usability. With the increasing demand of highly accurate and robust palmprint authentication system, multispectral imaging has been employed to acquire more discriminative information and increase the antispoof capability of palmprint. This paper presents an online multispectral palmprint system that could meet the requirement of real-time application. A data acquisition device is designed to capture the palmprint images under Blue, Green, Red, and near-infrared (NIR) illuminations in less than 1 s. A large multispectral palmprint database is then established to investigate the recognition performance of each spectral band. Our experimental results show that the red channel achieves the best result, whereas the Blue and Green channels have comparable performance but are slightly inferior to the NIR channel. After analyzing the extracted features from different bands, we propose a score level fusion scheme to integrate the multispectral information. The palmprint verification experiments demonstrated the superiority of multispectral fusion to each single spectrum, which results in both higher verification accuracy and antispoofing capability.


systems man and cybernetics | 2009

Palmprint Recognition Using 3-D Information

David Zhang; Guangming Lu; Wei Li; Lei Zhang; Nan Luo

Palmprint has proved to be one of the most unique and stable biometric characteristics. Almost all the current palmprint recognition techniques capture the 2-D image of the palm surface and use it for feature extraction and matching. Although 2-D palmprint recognition can achieve high accuracy, the 2-D palmprint images can be counterfeited easily and much 3-D depth information is lost in the imaging process. This paper explores a 3-D palmprint recognition approach by exploiting the 3-D structural information of the palm surface. The structured light imaging is used to acquire the 3-D palmprint data, from which several types of unique features, including mean curvature image, Gaussian curvature image, and surface type, are extracted. A fast feature matching and score-level fusion strategy are proposed for palmprint matching and classification. With the established 3-D palmprint database, a series of verification and identification experiments is conducted to evaluate the proposed method. The results demonstrate that 3-D palmprint technique has high recognition performance. Although its recognition rate is a little lower than 2-D palmprint recognition, 3-D palmprint recognition has higher anticounterfeiting capability and is more robust to illumination variations and serious scrabbling in the palm surface. Meanwhile, by fusing the 2-D and 3-D palmprint information, much higher recognition rate can be achieved.


Expert Systems With Applications | 2011

Online joint palmprint and palmvein verification

David Zhang; Zhenhua Guo; Guangming Lu; Lei Zhang; Yahui Liu; Wangmeng Zuo

As a unique and reliable biometric characteristic, palmprint verification has achieved a great success. However, palmprint alone may not be able to meet the increasing demand of highly accurate and robust biometric systems. Recently, palmvein, which refers to the palm feature under near-infrared spectrum, has been attracting much research interest. Since palmprint and palmvein can be captured simultaneously by using specially designed devices, the joint use of palmprint and palmvein features can effectively increase the accuracy, robustness and anti-spoof capability of palm based biometric techniques. This paper presents an online personal verification system by fusing palmprint and palmvein inforA fast palmprint and palmvein recognition systemA fast palmprint and palmvein recognition system quality can vary much, a dynamic fusion scheme which is adaptive to image quality is developed. To increase the anti-spoof capability of the system, a liveness detection method based on the image property is proposed. A comprehensive database of palmprint-palmvein images was established to verify the proposed system, and the experimental results demonstrated that since palmprint and palmvein contain complementary information, much higher accuracy could be achieved by fusing them than using only one of them. In addition, the whole verification procedure can be completed in 1.2s, which implies that the system can work in real time.


Pattern Recognition | 2006

A study of identical twins' palmprints for personal verification

Adams Wai-Kin Kong; David Zhang; Guangming Lu

Automatic biometric systems based on human characteristics for personal identification have attracted great attention. Their performance highly depends on the distinctive information in the biometrics. Identical twins having the closest genetics-based relationship are expected to have maximum similarity in their biometrics. Classifying identical twins is a challenging problem for some automatic biometric systems. Palmprint has been studied for personal identification for over seven years. Most of the previous research concentrates on algorithm development. In this paper, we systemically examine palmprints from the same DNA for automatic personal identification and to uncover the genetically related palmprint features. The experimental results show that the three principal lines and some portions of weak lines are genetically related features but our palms still contain rich genetically unrelated features for classifying identical twins.


IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement | 2011

Selecting a Reference High Resolution for Fingerprint Recognition Using Minutiae and Pores

David Zhang; Feng Liu; Qijun Zhao; Guangming Lu; Nan Luo

High-resolution automated fingerprint recognition systems (AFRSs) offer higher security because they are able to make use of level-3 features, such as pores, that are not available in lower resolution ( <; 500-dpi) images. One of the main parameters affecting the quality of a digital fingerprint image and issues such as cost, interoperability, and performance of an AFRS is the choice of image resolution. In this paper, we identify the optimal resolution for an AFRS using the two most representative fingerprint features: minutiae and pores. We first designed a multiresolution fingerprint acquisition device to collect fingerprint images at multiple resolutions and captured fingerprints at various resolutions but at a fixed image size. We then carried out a theoretical analysis to identify the minimum required resolution for fingerprint recognition using minutiae and pores. After experiments on our collected fingerprint images and applying three requirements for the proportions of minutiae and pores that must be retained in a fingerprint image, we recommend a reference resolution of 800 dpi. Subsequent tests have further confirmed the proposed reference resolution.


computer vision and pattern recognition | 2010

Efficient joint 2D and 3D palmprint matching with alignment refinement

Wei Li; Lei Zhang; David Zhang; Guangming Lu; Jingqi Yan

Palmprint verification is a relatively new but promising personal authentication technique for its high accuracy and fast matching speed. Two dimensional (2D) palmprint recognition has been well studied in the past decade, and recently three dimensional (3D) palmprint recognition techniques were also proposed. The 2D and 3D palmprint data can be captured simultaneously and they provide different and complementary information. 3D palmprint contains the depth information of the palm surface, while 2D palmprint contains plenty of textures. How to efficiently extract and fuse the 2D and 3D palmprint features to improve the recognition performance is a critical issue for practical palmprint systems. In this paper, an efficient joint 2D and 3D palmprint matching scheme is proposed. The principal line features and palm shape features are extracted and used to accurately align the palmprint, and a couple of matching rules are defined to efficiently use the 2D and 3D features for recognition. The experiments on a 2D+3D palmprint database which contains 8000 samples show that the proposed scheme can greatly improve the performance of palmprint verification.


international conference on machine learning and cybernetics | 2004

Wavelet based independent component analysis for palmprint identification

Guangming Lu; Kuanquan Wang; David Zhang

This work presents a multi-resolution analysis based independent component analysis (ICA) method for automatic palmprint identification. The ICA is well known by its feature representation ability recently, in which the desired representation is the one that minimizes the statistical independence of the components of the representation. Such a representation can capture the essential feature and the structure of the palmprint images. At the same time, the palmprints have a great deal of different features, such as principal lines, wrinkles, ridges, minutiae points and texture, which can be regarded as multi-scale features. Then, it is reasonable for us to integrate the multi-resolution analysis method and ICA to represent the palmprint features. The experiment results show that the integrated method is more efficient than ICA algorithm.


systems man and cybernetics | 2011

3-D Palmprint Recognition With Joint Line and Orientation Features

Wei Li; David Zhang; Lei Zhang; Guangming Lu; Jingqi Yan

2-D palmprint has been recognized as an effective biometric identifier in the past decade. Recently, 3-D palmprint recognition was proposed to further improve the performance of palmprint systems. This paper presents a simple yet efficient scheme for 3-D palmprint recognition. After calculating and enhancing the mean-curvature image of the 3-D palmprint data, we extract both line and orientation features from it. The two types of features are then fused at either score level or feature level for the final 3-D palmprint recognition. The experiments on The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 3-D palmprint database, which contains 8000 samples from 400 palms show that the proposed feature extraction and fusion methods lead to promising performance.


international conference on biometrics theory applications and systems | 2008

Three Dimensional Palmprint Recognition using Structured Light Imaging

David Zhang; Guangming Lu; Wei Li; Lei Zhang; Nan Luo

Palmprint is one of the most unique and stable biometric characteristics. Although 2D palmprint recognition can achieve high accuracy, the 2D palmprint images can be easily counterfeited and much 3D depth information is lost in the imaging process. This paper presents a new approach, 3D palmprint recognition, to exploit the 3D structural information of the palm surface. The structured-light imaging is used to acquire the 3D palmprint data, from which the features of Mean Curvature, Gauss Curvature and Surface Type (ST) are extracted. A fast feature matching and score level fusion strategy are then used to classify the input 3D palmprint data. With the established 3D palmprint database, a series of verification and identification experiments are conducted and the results show that 3D palmprint technique can achieve high recognition rate while having high anti-counterfeiting capability.


international conference on biometrics | 2006

A study of identical twins’ palmprints for personal authentication

Adams Wai-Kin Kong; David Zhang; Guangming Lu

Biometric recognition based on human characteristics for personal identification has attracted great attention. The performance of biometric systems highly depends on the distinctive information in the biometrics. However, identical twins having the closest genetics-based relationship are expected to have maximum similarity between their biometrics. Classifying identical twins is a challenging problem for some automatic biometric systems. In this paper, we summarize the exiting experimental results about identical twins’ biometrics including face, iris, fingerprint and voice. Then, we systemically examine identical twins’ palmprints. The experimental results show that we can employ low-resolution palmprint images to distinguish identical twins.

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David Zhang

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Lei Zhang

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Adams Wai-Kin Kong

Nanyang Technological University

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Michael Wong

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Jinxing Li

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Wei Li

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Nan Luo

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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