Abstracto

Personal Recognition Based on Dorsal Hand Vein Pattern

Naidile.S, Shrividya.G

Rapid growth in the use of e-commerce applications requires reliable user identification for secure access control. Hand vein biometrics is a recent technology that offers secure system for identification/authentication. Just like any other identification system, this has four steps- image acquisition, pre-processing, feature extraction and classification/matching. This paper presents a simulation to identify the individuals using dorsal hand vein images. In the proposed system an infrared camera is used to capture the hand image. After pre-processing, method known as maximum curvature is used to find the centerlines of veins. For matching, a simple correlation method is used. Maximum curvature method is robustous against any temporal fluctuations in brightness and vein width.