Finger vein biometric identification using discretization method

Abstract

Over the past years, finger vein identification has gaining increasing attention in biometrics. It has many advantages as compared to other biometrics such as living-body identification, difficult to counterfeit because it resides underneath the finger skin and noninvasiveness. Finger vein feature extraction plays an important role in finger vein identification. The performance of finger vein identification is highly depending on the meaningful extracted features from feature extraction process. However, most of the works focus on how to extract the individual features and not presenting the individual characteristic of finger vein patterns with systematic representation. This paper proposed an improved scheme of finger vein feature extraction method by adopting discretization method. The extracted features will be represented systematically way in order to make classification task easier and increase the identification accuracy rate. The experimental result shows that the accuracy rate of identification of the proposed framework using Discretization is above 98.0%.