Research on Palm Vein Recognition Algorithm Based on Improved Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

When collecting palm vein images, it is easy to be affected by external factors such as light source and placement angle, which result in poor recognition accuracy. In this paper, a new method, which involve a new method of region of interest segmentation and an improved palm recognition method of VGG16 deep convolutional neural network, was proposed to promote the recognition accuracy and be well adapted to the actual application scenarios. Firstly, the original palm vein image is obtained through profile original image, positioning key point of original image, and extract region of interest image. Afterwards, the adaptive histogram equalization technique and Gaussian Filters are utilized to improve image quality. Secondly, for palm vein image recognition application scenarios, the output of the convolutional layer of the VGG-16 convolutional neural network is standardized in batches, and the attention mechanism is introduced to optimize the VGG-16 neural network. The optimized network is used for feature extraction and recognition of palm vein images. Thirdly, data enhancement was performed on the public Polyu multispectral palm vein data set, and then a large number of experiments were carried out, and the best recognition rate was 99.57%.