title: A Robust and Fast Computation Touchless Palm Print Recognition System Using LHEAT and the IFkNCN Classifier.
abstract: Mobile implementation is a current trend in biometric design. This paper proposes a new approach to palm print recognition, in which smart phones are used to capture palm print images at a distance. A touchless system was developed because of public demand for privacy and sanitation. Robust hand tracking, image enhancement, and fast computation processing algorithms are required for effective touchless and mobile-based recognition. In this project, hand tracking and the region of interest (ROI) extraction method were discussed. A sliding neighborhood operation with local histogram equalization, followed by a local adaptive thresholding or LHEAT approach, was proposed in the image enhancement stage to manage low-quality palm print images. To accelerate the recognition process, a new classifier, improved fuzzy-based k nearest centroid neighbor (IFkNCN), was implemented. By removing outliers and reducing the amount of training data, this classifier exhibited faster computation. Our experimental results demonstrate that a touchless palm print system using LHEAT and IFkNCN achieves a promising recognition rate of 98.64%.
authors.affiliation: Intelligent Biometric Group, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia Engineering Campus, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Penang, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Haryati
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jaafar
authors.affiliation: Intelligent Biometric Group, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia Engineering Campus, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Penang, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Salwani
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ibrahim
authors.affiliation: Intelligent Biometric Group, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia Engineering Campus, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Penang, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Dzati Athiar
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Ramli
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003878:Dermatoglyphics; D006225:Hand / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D063731:Mobile Applications; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*