VPID: Towards Vein Pattern Identification Using Thermal Imaging
Type of Publication: Article in Journal
| Author(s): | Sarah Faltaous, Jonathan Liebers; Yomna Abdelrahman, Florian Alt; Schneegass, Stefan |
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| Title of Journal: | i-com |
| Number of Issue: | 18 (3) |
| Pages: | 259-270 |
| Publication Date: | 2019 |
| ISSN: | 1618-162X |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | doi:10.1515/icom-2019-0009 |
| Fulltext: | VPID: Towards Vein Pattern Identification Using Thermal Imaging (6,62 MB) |
| Citation: | Download BibTeX |
Abstract
Biometric authentication received considerable attention lately. The vein pattern on the back of the hand is a unique biometric that can be measured through thermal imaging. Detecting this pattern provides an implicit approach that can authenticate users while interacting. In this paper, we present the Vein-Identification system, called VPID. It consists of a vein pattern recognition pipeline and an authentication part. We implemented six different vein-based authentication approaches by combining thermal imaging and computer vision algorithms. Through a study, we show that the approaches achieve a low false-acceptance rate (“FAR”) and a low false-rejection rate (“FRR”). Our findings show that the best approach is the Hausdorff distance-difference applied in combination with a Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) classification of stacked images.