Finger Vein Recognition Algorithm Using Phase Only Correlation

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for finger vein recognition with less complexity in the image preprocessing phase, where finger vein pattern extraction is not included at all. In the proposed algorithm, we implement phase-only correlation (POC) function at the matching stage with a very simple preprocessing technique. Experimental evaluation of the proposed algorithm using a set of finger vein images captured from a low cost device have resulting an efficient recognition performance where the equal error rate (EER) was 0.9803% with a total processing time of 0.6362s.