Thermal hand image segmentation for biometric recognition
In this paper we present a method to identify people by means of thermal (TH) and visible (VIS) hand images acquired simultaneously with a TESTO 882-3 camera. In addition, we also present a new database specially acquired for this work. The real challenge when dealing with TH images is the cold finger areas, which can be confused with the acquisition surface. This problem is solved by taking advantage of the VIS information. We have performed different tests to show how TH and VIS images work in identification problems. Experimental results reveal that TH hand image is as suitable for biometric recognition systems as VIS hand images, and better results are obtained when combining this information. A Biometric Dispersion Matcher has been used as a feature vector dimensionality reduction technique as well as a classification task. Its selection criteria helps to reduce the length of the vectors used to perform identification up to a hundred measurements. Identification rates reach a maximum value of 98.3% under these conditions, when using a database of 104 people.
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