Title: Biometric recognition using fuzzy score level fusion

Authors: S. Bharathi; R. Sudhakar; Valentina E. Balas

Addresses: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, UdumalaiRoad, Pollachi – 642003, Tamil Nadu, India ' Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, UdumalaiRoad, Pollachi – 642003, Tamil Nadu, India ' Deparment of Automatics and Applied Software, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, 77 B-dul Revolutiet, 310130 Arad, Romania

Abstract: Multi-modal biometric recognition uses more than one biometric identifier to recognise a person. Identification based on multiple templates becomes an emerging need. Multi-modal biometric systems are expected to be more reliable due to the presence of multiple independent pieces of biometric traits. This paper proposes a new approach for biometric recognition using hand vein and finger vein images. Our proposed method employs hyper analytic wavelet transform and automatic thresholding techniques to extract features from the images of hand. Once the veins are extracted the location and width are stored in the database. Here score level fusion based on fuzzy logic is utilised for recognition. This approach is tested on the finger vein and hand vein databases which is containing 500 samples from 100 users. The experimental results exhibits that the proposed method is comparable with the existing recognising methods.

Keywords: finger vein images; hand vein images; hyper analytic wavelet transform; HWT; fuzzy score level fusion; multimodal biometric recognition; biometrics; automatic thresholding; feature extraction; hand images; veins; fuzzy logic; recognition; identification; authentication.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAIP.2014.062169

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, 2014 Vol.6 No.2, pp.81 - 94

Received: 17 Jun 2013
Accepted: 25 Oct 2013
Published online: 28 Jun 2014 *

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