A Novel System and Experimental Study for 3D Finger Multibiometrics

Abstract

Fingers contain various discriminative biometric traits, such as fingerprint, finger vein, finger knuckle, finger shape, and so on, which are complementary in identity information. However, only one or a few traits are used in most current research and practical applications, while others are ignored, resulting in degraded recognition performance and vulnerability to forgery. In this paper, we make the first attempt to collect and study all biometric traits on the finger. Firstly, a novel multi-view, multi-spectral 3D finger imaging system is proposed. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first biometric imaging system capable of capturing almost all finger-based traits. We scanned numerous fingers with this 3D finger imaging system, obtaining external skin images and internal vein images from 6 different views. The proposed 3D finger reconstruction and texture mapping algorithms are then used to generate 3D finger models with skin and vein textures. Second, we establish a benchmark dataset, namely the Large-scale Finger Multi-Biometric database and benchmark for 3D Finger Biometrics (LFMB-3DFB). The LFMB-3DFB contains 695 fingers, and each finger is acquired 10 times, yielding 6 finger skin images and 6 finger vein images for a total of 83,400 images and 6,950 3D finger models. Finally, we design a more scientific and comprehensive evaluation protocol to conduct extensive experimental research and analysis on this database for both subject-independent verification and subject-independent close-set identification tasks. Comprehensive and rigorous experiments for 2D finger traits recognition, multi-view finger traits recognition, 3D finger traits recognition, and score-level fusion on LFMB-3DFB are carried out, and excellent results are achieved. The LFMB-3DFB database will be released at <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://github.com/SCUT-BIP-Lab/LFMB-3DFB</uri> to promote 3D finger multi-biometric research using cutting-edge imaging techniques.