Finger Vein Recognition Algorithm Research Articles

DDP-FedFV: A Dual-Decoupling Personalized Federated Learning Framework for Finger Vein Recognition.

Finger vein recognition methods, as emerging biometric technologies, have attracted increasing attention in identity verification due to their high accuracy and live detection capabilities. However, as privacy protection awareness increases, traditional centralized finger vein recognition algorithms face privacy and security issues. Federated learning, a distributed training method that protects data privacy without sharing data across endpoints, is gradually being promoted and applied. Nevertheless, its performance is severely limited by heterogeneity among datasets. To address these issues, this paper proposes a dual-decoupling personalized federated learning framework for finger vein recognition (DDP-FedFV). The DDP-FedFV method combines generalization and personalization. In the first stage, the DDP-FedFV method implements a dual-decoupling mechanism involving model and feature decoupling to optimize feature representations and enhance the generalizability of the global model. In the second stage, the DDP-FedFV method implements a personalized weight aggregation method, federated personalization weight ratio reduction (FedPWRR), to optimize the parameter aggregation process based on data distribution information, thereby enhancing the personalization of the client models. To evaluate the performance of the DDP-FedFV method, theoretical analyses and experiments were conducted based on six public finger vein datasets. The experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm outperforms centralized training models without increasing communication costs or privacy leakage risks.

Study for lightweight finger vein recognition based on a small sample

To address several common problems of finger vein recognition, a lightweight finger vein recognition algorithm by means of a small sample has been proposed in this study. First of all, a Gabor filter is applied to deal with the images for the purpose of that these processed images can simulate a kind of situation of finger vein at low temperature, such that the generalization ability of the algorithm model can be improved as well. By cutting down the amount of convolutional layers and fully connected layers in VGG-19, a lightweight network can be given. Meanwhile, the activation function of some convolutional layers is replaced to protect the network weight that can be updated successfully. After then, a multi-attention mechanism is introduced to the modified network architecture to result in improving the ability of extracting important features. Finally, a strategy based on transfer learning has been used to reduce the training time in the model training phase. Honestly, it is obvious that the proposed finger vein recognition algorithm has a good performance in recognition accuracy, robustness and speed. The experimental results show that the recognition accuracy can arrive at about 98.45%, which has had better performance in comparison with some existing algorithms.

A Finger Vein Recognition Algorithm Based on the Histogram of Variable Curvature Directional Binary Statistics

Structural features are capable of effectively capturing the overall texture variations in images. However, in locally prominent areas with visible veins, other characteristics such as directionality, convexity–concavity, and curvature also play a crucial role in recognition, and their impact cannot be overlooked. This paper introduces a novel approach, the histogram of variable curvature directional binary statistical (HVCDBS), which combines the structural and directional features of images. The proposed method is designed for extracting discriminative multifeature information in vein recognition. First, a multidirection and multicurvature Gabor filter is introduced for convolution with vein images, yielding directional and convexity–concavity information at each pixel, along with curvature information for the corresponding curve. Simultaneously incorporating the original image feature information, these four aspects of information are fused and encoded to construct a variable curvature binary pattern (VCBP) with multifeatures. Second, the feature map containing multifeature information is blockwise processed to build variable curvature binary statistical features. Finally, competitive Gabor directional binary statistical features are combined, and a matching score‐level fusion scheme is employed based on maximizing the interclass distance and minimizing the intraclass distance to determine the optimal weights. This process fuses the two feature maps into a one‐dimensional feature vector, achieving an effective representation of vein images. Extensive experiments were conducted on four widely utilized vein databases, and the results indicate that the proposed algorithm, compared with solely extraction of structural features, achieved higher recognition rates and lower equal error rates.

EIFNet: An Explicit and Implicit Feature Fusion Network for Finger Vein Verification

Finger vein recognition has received more attention in recent years due to its high security and promising development potential. However, extracting complete vein patterns and obtaining features from the original images suffer from the low contrast of finger vein images, which dramatically restrains the performance of finger vein recognition algorithms. Inspired by this motivation, we propose an explicit and implicit feature fusion Network (EIFNet) for finger vein verification. It can extract more comprehensive and discriminative features by complementarily fusing the features extracted from binary vein masks and gray original images. We design a feature fusion module (FFM) acting as a bridge between mask feature extraction module (MFEM) and contextual feature extraction module (CFEM) to achieve the optimal fusion of features. To obtain more accurate vein masks, we develop a novel finger vein pattern extraction method and provide the first finger vein segmentation dataset THUFVS.We solve the difficulty of building finger vein segmentation datasets in a simple but effective way, and develop a complete process encompassing dataset creation, data augmentation refinement and network design, which refers to the Mask Generation Module (MGM), for the deep learning based finger vein pattern extraction method. Experimental results demonstrate the superior verification performance of EIFNet on three widely used datasets compared with other existing methods.

FFV-MBC: A Novel Fused Finger-Vein Recognition Method Based on Monogenic Binary Coding

<p>To improve pattern representation capabilities and robustness in traditional finger-vein recognition algorithms. In this paper, we propose FFV-MBC, a novel fused finger-vein recognition method based on monogenic binary coding (MBC). First of all, the amplitude, orientation, and phase information of the finger-vein images are filtered by a multi-scale monogenic log-Gabor filter and encoded by the binary coding theory. Three local features, MBC-A, MBC-P, and MBC-O, are achieved from different combinations of local image intensity and variation coding. After obtaining the features, we utilize the block-based Fisher Linear Discriminant method to reduce the dimension. Finally, the similarity components are calculated by the cosine distance and fused for the final finger-vein recognition results. We evaluate our proposed method on two publicly available datasets and one self-built dataset, i.e., Malaysian Polytechnic University (FV-USM), the Group of Machine Learning and Applications of Shandong University (SDUMLA-HMT), and our team, Signal and Information Processing Laboratory (FV-SIPL). On average, the proposed method achieved high recognition accuracy, i.e., 99.30%, and 1.10% equal error rates (EER). Overall, the proposed method performs better than most classical and state-of-the-art finger-vein recognition methods.</p> <p> </p>

SIFT-Flow-Based Virtual Sample Generation for Single-Sample Finger Vein Recognition

Finger vein recognition is considered to be a very promising biometric identification technology due to its excellent recognition performance. However, in the real world, the finger vein recognition system inevitably suffers from the single-sample problem: that is, only one sample is registered per class. In this case, the performance of many classical finger vein recognition algorithms will decline or fail because they cannot learn enough intra-class variations. To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose a SIFT-flow-based virtual sample generation (SVSG) method. Specifically, first, on the generic set with multiple registered samples per class, the displacement matrix of each class is obtained using the scale-invariant feature transform flow (SIFT-flow) algorithm. Then, the key displacements of each displacement matrix are extracted to form a variation matrix. After removing noise displacements and redundant displacements, the final global variation matrix is obtained. On the single sample set, multiple virtual samples are generated for the single sample according to the global variation matrix. Experimental results on the public database show that this method can effectively improve the performance of single-sample finger vein recognition.

ViT-Cap: A Novel Vision Transformer-Based Capsule Network Model for Finger Vein Recognition

Finger vein recognition has been widely studied due to its advantages, such as high security, convenience, and living body recognition. At present, the performance of the most advanced finger vein recognition methods largely depends on the quality of finger vein images. However, when collecting finger vein images, due to the possible deviation of finger position, ambient lighting and other factors, the quality of the captured images is often relatively low, which directly affects the performance of finger vein recognition. In this study, we proposed a new model for finger vein recognition that combined the vision transformer architecture with the capsule network (ViT-Cap). The model can explore finger vein image information based on global and local attention and selectively focus on the important finger vein feature information. First, we split-finger vein images into patches and then linearly embedded each of the patches. Second, the resulting vector sequence was fed into a transformer encoder to extract the finger vein features. Third, the feature vectors generated by the vision transformer module were fed into the capsule module for further training. We tested the proposed method on four publicly available finger vein databases. Experimental results showed that the average recognition accuracy of the algorithm based on the proposed model was above 96%, which was better than the original vision transformer, capsule network, and other advanced finger vein recognition algorithms. Moreover, the equal error rate (EER) of our model achieved state-of-the-art performance, especially reaching less than 0.3% under the test of FV-USM datasets which proved the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed model in finger vein recognition.

A Simple and Efficient Method for Finger Vein Recognition.

Finger vein recognition has drawn increasing attention as one of the most popular and promising biometrics due to its high distinguishing ability, security, and non-invasive procedure. The main idea of traditional schemes is to directly extract features from finger vein images and then compare features to find the best match. However, the features extracted from images contain much redundant data, while the features extracted from patterns are greatly influenced by image segmentation methods. To tackle these problems, this paper proposes a new finger vein recognition algorithm by generating code. The proposed method does not require an image segmentation algorithm, is simple to calculate, and has a small amount of data. Firstly, the finger vein images were divided into blocks to calculate the mean value. Then, the centrosymmetric coding was performed using the matrix generated by blocking and averaging. The obtained codewords were concatenated as the feature codewords of the image. The similarity between vein codes is measured by the ratio of minimum Hamming distance to codeword length. Extensive experiments on two public finger vein databases verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The results indicate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods and has competitive potential in performing the matching task.

Finger Vein Recognition Algorithm Based on Lightweight Deep Convolutional Neural Network

Even though the deep neural networks have strong feature representation capability and high recognition accuracy in finger vein recognition, the deep models are computationally intensive and poor in timeliness. To address these issues, this article proposes a lightweight algorithm for finger vein image recognition and matching. The proposed algorithm uses a lightweight convolutional model in the backbone network and employs a triplet loss function to train the model, which not only improves the matching accuracy, but also satisfies the real-time matching requirements. In addition, the Mini-region of interest (RoI) and finger vein pattern feature extraction also effectively solve the problems of large amounts of calculation and background noise. Moreover, the present model recognizes new categories based on the feature vector space constructed by the finger vein recognition system, so that new categories can be recognized without retraining the model. The results show that the finger vein recognition and matching algorithm proposed in this article achieves 99.3% and 99.6% in recognition accuracy and 14.2 and 16.5 ms in matching time for the dataset Shandong University Machine Learning and Applications Laboratory-Homologous Multimodal Biometric Traits (SDUMLA-HMT) and Peking University Finger Vein Dataset (PKU-FVD), respectively. These metrics show that our approach is time-saving and more effective than previous algorithms. Compared with the state-of-the-art finger vein recognition algorithm, the proposed algorithm improves 1.45% in recognition accuracy while saving 45.7% in recognition time.

Finger vein recognition algorithm under reduced field of view

Finger vein recognition algorithm under reduced field of view

Nearest Centroid Neighbor Based Sparse Representation Classification for Finger Vein Recognition

In this paper, an efficient finger vein recognition algorithm based on the combination of the nearest centroid neighbor and sparse representation classification techniques ( ${k}$ NCN-SRC) is presented. The previously proposed recognition algorithms are mainly based on distance computation. In the proposed method, the distance, as well as the spatial distribution, are considered to achieve a better recognition rate. The proposed method consists of two stages: first, the ${k}$ nearest neighbors of the test sample are selected based on the nearest centroid neighbor, and then, in the second stage, based on the selected number of closest nearest centroid neighbors ( ${k}$ ), the test sample is classified by sparse representation. Findings from the proposed method ${k}$ NCN-SRC demonstrated an increased recognition rate. This improvement can be attributed to the selection of the train samples, where the train samples are selected by considering the spatial and distance distribution. In addition, the complexity of SRC is reduced by reducing the number of train samples for the classification of the test sample by sparse representation and the processing speed of the proposed algorithm is significantly improved in comparison with the conventional SRC which is due to the reduced number of training samples. It can be concluded that the ${k}$ NCN-SRC classification method is efficient for finger vein recognition. An increase in the recognition rate of 3.35% , 9.07% , 20.23% , and 0.81% is obtained for the proposed ${k}$ NCN-SRC method in comparison with the conventional SRC for the four tested public finger vein databases.

Contactless finger-vein verification based on oriented elements feature

Finger vein pattern has emerged as one of the most popular and promising biometric features for personal identity verification due to its uniqueness, stability, high distinguishability and non-invasive procedure. Many finger vein recognition algorithms have been proposed and successfully applied for identity authentication in the past decades. However, most of the previous methods usually only use the images captured by using a special fixed setting to avoid translation and rotation resulting from finger moving during image acquisition. Contactless finger vein recognition has recently begun to draw attention of researchers because of its user friendliness. Contactless vein images are captured under free conditions and usually have significant variations on rotations and translations. Conventional powerful recognition researches are not very effective for contactless vein images. Therefore, this paper proposed a new method based on finger vein patterns by employing region of interest extraction and oriented elements feature extraction scheme to effectively deal with non-ideal scenarios such as variations. A region of interest based on rotation rectified is employed to reduce the effects of rotation and translation during finger vein image capture. Then, the direction feature is drawn from the texture and steady orientation characteristics of finger vein images by using the magnitude and orientation of the gradient of points on finger vein lines in fuzzy division region. Using the extracted feature can effectively solve the problem of the geometric deformation. High accuracy has been obtained by the proposed scheme. Experimental results show that this new algorithm is effective and feasible in finger vein recognition system.

IRIS AND FINGER VEIN MULTI MODEL RECOGNITION SYSTEM BASED ON SIFT FEATURES


 
 
 
 ndividual identification process is a very significant process that resides a large portion of day by day usages. Identification process is appropriate in work place, private zones, banks ...etc. Individuals are rich subject having many characteristics that can be used for recognition purpose such as finger vein, iris, face ...etc. Finger vein and iris key-points are considered as one of the most talented biometric authentication techniques for its security and convenience. SIFT is new and talented technique for pattern recognition. However, some shortages exist in many related techniques, such as difficulty of feature loss, feature key extraction, and noise point introduction. In this manuscript a new technique named SIFT-based iris and SIFT-based finger vein identification with normalization and enhancement is proposed for achieving better performance. In evaluation with other SIFT-based iris or SIFT-based finger vein recognition algorithms, the suggested technique can overcome the difficulties of tremendous key-point extraction and exclude the noise points without feature loss. Experimental results demonstrate that the normalization and improvement steps are critical for SIFT-based recognition for iris and finger vein , and the proposed technique can accomplish satisfactory recognition performance..
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A Systematic Review of Finger Vein Recognition Techniques

Biometric identification is the study of physiological and behavioral attributes of an individual to overcome security problems. Finger vein recognition is a biometric technique used to analyze finger vein patterns of persons for proper authentication. This paper presents a detailed review on finger vein recognition algorithms. Such tools include image acquisition, preprocessing, feature extraction and matching methods to extract and analyze object patterns. In addition, we list some novel findings after the critical comparative analysis of the highlighted techniques. The comparative studies indicate that the accuracy of finger vein identification methods is up to the mark.

IRIS AND FINGER VEIN MULTI MODEL RECOGNITION SYSTEM BASED ON SIFT FEATURES

Individual identification process is a very significant process that resides a large portion of day by day usages. Identification process is appropriate in work place, private zones, banks …etc. Individuals are rich subject having many characteristics that can be used for recognition purpose such as finger vein, iris, face …etc. Finger vein and iris key-points are considered as one of the most talented biometric authentication techniques for its security and convenience. SIFT is new and talented technique for pattern recognition. However, some shortages exist in many related techniques, such as difficulty of feature loss, feature key extraction, and noise point introduction. In this manuscript a new technique named SIFT-based iris and SIFT-based finger vein identification with normalization and enhancement is proposed for achieving better performance. In evaluation with other SIFT-based iris or SIFT-based finger vein recognition algorithms, the suggested technique can overcome the difficulties of tremendous key-point extraction and exclude the noise points without feature loss. Experimental results demonstrate that the normalization and improvement steps are critical for SIFT-based recognition for iris and finger vein , and the proposed technique can accomplish satisfactory recognition performance. Keywords: SIFT, Iris Recognition, Finger Vein identification and Biometric Systems.
 
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Finger vein secure biometric template generation based on deep learning

Leakage of unprotected biometric authentication data has become a high-risk threat for many applications. Lots of researchers are investigating and designing novel authentication schemes to prevent such attacks. However, the biggest challenge is how to protect biometric data while keeping the practical performance of identity verification systems. For the sake of tackling this problem, this paper presents a novel finger vein recognition algorithm by using secure biometric template scheme based on deep learning and random projections, named FVR-DLRP. FVR-DLRP preserves the core biometric information even with the user’s password cracked, whereas the original biometric information is still safe. The results of experiment show that the algorithm FVR-DLRP can maintain the accuracy of biometric identification while enhancing the uncertainty of the transformation, which provides better protection for biometric authentication.

A finger vein recognition algorithm based on deep learning

Deep learning has recently achieved impressive performance in the area of biometric recognition. The technology of finger vein recognition possesses better anti forgery performance and identification stability in collecting and certificating information of human bodies. The traditional finger vein recognition method is mainly based on template matching or whole feature recognition, suffering from light instability of the acquisition equipment which leads to low robustness. In this paper, we adapt a finger vein recognition algorithm using feature block fusion and deep belief network (FBF-DBN) and a convolutional neural network (CNN), then we combine these two network systems to judge the performance of our system. Meanwhile, we improve deep network input by using feature points set in vein images, effectively reducing the time in learning and detection, meeting the practical needs of biometric recognition specifically applied to embedded equipment. The experiment results showed that FBF-DBN and CNN algorithm present better recognition performance and faster speed.

A finger vein recognition algorithm based on deep learning

A finger vein recognition algorithm based on deep learning

Near Infrared Finger Vein Recognition Method Based on Subspace Projection Technology

Finger vein recognition refers to a recent biometric technique which exploits the vein patterns in the human finger to identify individuals. Finger vein recognition faces a number of challenges. One critical issue is the performance of finger vein recognition system. To overcome this problem, a finger vein recognition algorithm based on one kind of subspace projection technology is presented. Firstly, we use Kapur entropy threshold method to achieve the purpose of intercepting region of finger under contactless mode. Then the finger vein features were extracted by 2DPCA method. Finally, we used of nearest neighbor distance classifier for matching. The results indicate that the algorithm has good recognition performance.

Finger Vein Identification Based on 2DPCA

Finger vein is a promising biometric pattern for personal identification in terms of its security and convenience. In this paper a finger vein recognition algorithm based on two-dimensional principal component analysis is presented. Firstly, a stable region representing finger vein network is cropped from the image plane of an imaging sensor. Then the finger vein features were extracted by 2DPCA method. Finally, finger vein recognition is implemented using the nearest neighbor distance classifier. Experimental results show that the proposed method exhibit an exciting performance in personal identification.