A New Preprocessing Algorithm of Hand Vein Image

Abstract

Biometrics technology is an important security technology and the research of it has become a new hot spot for its superior security features. Then hand vein recognition is a new biological feature recognition which has many advantages, such as safety, non-contact. According to the features of human hand vein image, a hand vein preprocessing method based on wavelet transform and windows maximum between-class difference method threshold (OTSU) segmentation algorithm is proposed. In this paper, the hand vein image is enhanced by adaptive histogram equalization in low frequency part of the hand vein image after wavelet decomposition and filtering before feature extraction. Then the windows OTSU threshold segmentation algorithm is used to get the features. The experimental results show that this method is simple and easy to realize and has laid a good foundation for the latter part of the vein recognition.