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A single scale retinex based method for palm vein extraction

Wang, C; Peng, M; Xu, L; Chen, T; A single scale retinex based method for palm vein extraction. In: Proceedings of 2016 IEEE Information Technology, Networking, Electronic and Automation Control Conference. IEEE: Chongqing, China. Green open access

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Abstract

Palm vein recognition is a novel biometric identification technology. But how to gain a better vein extraction result from the raw palm image is still a challenging problem, especially when the raw data collection has the problem of asymmetric illumination. This paper proposes a method based on single scale Retinex algorithm to extract palm vein image when strong shadow presents due to asymmetric illumination and uneven geometry of the palm. We test our method on a multispectral palm image. The experimental result shows that the proposed method is robust to the influence of illumination angle and shadow. Compared to the traditional extraction methods, the proposed method can obtain palm vein lines with better visualization performance (the contrast ratio increases by 18.4%, entropy increases by 1.07%, and definition increases by 18.8%).

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: A single scale retinex based method for palm vein extraction
Event: IEEE Information Technology, Networking, Electronic and Automation Control Conference 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-4673-9194-8
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/ITNEC.2016.7560322
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ITNEC.2016.7560322
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089220
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