Sensors 2012, 12(2), 1738-1757; doi:10.3390/s120201738
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Finger Vein Recognition Based on a Personalized Best Bit Map

Gongping Yangemail, Xiaoming Xiemail and Yilong Yin* email
School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250101, China
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 24 December 2011; in revised form: 2 February 2012 / Accepted: 3 February 2012 / Published: 9 February 2012
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hand-Based Biometrics Sensors and Systems)
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Abstract: Finger vein patterns have recently been recognized as an effective biometric identifier. In this paper, we propose a finger vein recognition method based on a personalized best bit map (PBBM). Our method is rooted in a local binary pattern based method and then inclined to use the best bits only for matching. We first present the concept of PBBM and the generating algorithm. Then we propose the finger vein recognition framework, which consists of preprocessing, feature extraction, and matching. Finally, we design extensive experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of our proposal. Experimental results show that PBBM achieves not only better performance, but also high robustness and reliability. In addition, PBBM can be used as a general framework for binary pattern based recognition.
Keywords: finger vein recognition; personalized best bit map; local binary pattern; Hamming distance; general framework

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Yang, G.; Xi, X.; Yin, Y. Finger Vein Recognition Based on a Personalized Best Bit Map. Sensors 2012, 12, 1738-1757.

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Yang, Gongping; Xi, Xiaoming; Yin, Yilong. 2012. "Finger Vein Recognition Based on a Personalized Best Bit Map." Sensors 12, no. 2: 1738-1757.

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