Bimodal person recognition using dorsal-vein and finger-vein images

Nowadays, human recognition with biometric characteristic have been investigated in many researchers. However, traditional biometric methods are not always robust against counterfeit and spoof attacks. The challenge of this work is to develop a bimodal biometric system, based on more reliable and robust characteristics against counterfeiting. Indeed, biometric system based on the venous network of the hand gives higher recognition rate compared to other systems. Furthermore, the fusion of two prints minimums the error rate and counterfeits. In our biometric system, the most challenging phase is the feature extraction step. For this, we propose a new feature extraction approach based on the concatenation of the pyramid of Difference of Gaussian (DoG) and Local Line Binary Patterns (LLBP) histograms (H-DoG_LLBP). To evaluate the proposed system, we opted for Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) classifiers. The experimental study is based on the dorsal hand vein BOSPHORUS database and finger vein MMCBNU_6000 database. Our system presents an area under curve (AUC) equal to 0.99, and 0.001 mean square error (MSE) with ANN, and 0.0042 equal error rate (EER) with SVM.