Title
Personal identification from degraded and incomplete high resolution palmprints
Abstract
A high resolution palmprint recognition system using full or partial, eventually degraded, palmprints is presented. Previous work on palmprint matching addressed mostly commercial applications, using low resolution images. However, in forensic scenarios, high resolution palmprints, although incomplete and/or degraded, are often used. Degradations may result from surface irregularities or impurities, which are often modelled as Gaussian or salt and pepper noise, as well as smearing of the palmprint because of hand sliding, which in this work is modelled as motion blur. The proposed system matches palmprints, full or partial, undegraded or subjected to one of the above degradations, against palmprints registered in a database. The proposed system extends previous work of the authors by adaptively selecting between two palmprint matching approaches, achieving better recognition results than either of the two individual strategies. The first approach relies on a motion blur compensation technique, while the second is based on a combination of the Fourier-Mellin transform with a modified phase-only correlation matching strategy. The presented results show that for sufficiently large palmprint areas the blur compensation technique works better, while for small-sized partial palmprints with large motion blur degradation values the second approach based on correlation is preferred.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1049/iet-bmt.2014.0043
Biometrics, IET
Keywords
Field
DocType
fourier transforms,gaussian noise,image forensics,image matching,image resolution,motion compensation,palmprint recognition,fourier-mellin transform,forensic,motion blur compensation technique,palmprint matching,palmprint recognition system,personal identification,phase-only correlation matching strategy,salt and pepper noise,surface irregularity
Computer vision,Recognition system,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Salt-and-pepper noise,Motion blur,Gaussian,Artificial intelligence,Correlation matching,Fourier mellin transform,Gaussian noise
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
2
2047-4938
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lúcia Carreira100.34
Sanchit Singh200.34
Paulo Lobato Correia3486.89
Luis Ducla Soares422627.77