Title
Finger texture biometric verification exploiting Multi-scale Sobel Angles Local Binary Pattern features and score-based fusion.
Abstract
In this paper a new feature extraction method called Multi-scale Sobel Angles Local Binary Pattern (MSALBP) is proposed for application in personal verification using biometric Finger Texture (FT) patterns. This method combines Sobel direction angles with the Multi-Scale Local Binary Pattern (MSLBP). The resulting characteristics are formed into non-overlapping blocks and statistical calculations are implemented to form a texture vector as an input to an Artificial Neural Network (ANN). A Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) is applied as a multi-classifier to perform the verification. In addition, an innovative method for FT fusion based on individual finger contributions is suggested. This method is considered as a multi-object verification, where a finger fusion method named the Finger Contribution Fusion Neural Network (FCFNN) is employed for the five fingers. Two databases have been employed in this paper: PolyU3D2D and Spectral 460 nm (S460) from CASIA Multi-Spectral (CASIA-MS) images. The MSALBP feature extraction method has been examined and compared with different Local Binary Pattern (LBP) types; in classification it yields the lowest Equal Error Rate (EER) of 0.68% and 2% for PolyU3D2D and CASIA-MS (S460) databases, respectively. Moreover, the experimental results revealed that our proposed finger fusion method achieved superior performance for the PolyU3D2D database with an EER of 0.23% and consistent performance for the CASIA-MS (S460) database with an EER of 2%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.dsp.2017.08.002
Digital Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Finger texture,Finger fusion,Local binary pattern,Biometric verification,Probabilistic neural network
Pattern recognition,Word error rate,Local binary patterns,Fusion,Sobel operator,Feature extraction,Probabilistic neural network,Artificial intelligence,Biometrics,Artificial neural network,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
70
1051-2004
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
28
6