Dorsal hand vein authentication system using artificial neural network

Biometric feature authentication technology had been developed and implemented for the security access system. However, the known biometric features such as fingerprint, face and iris pattern failed to provide ideal security. Dorsal hand vein is the features beneath the skin which makes it not easily be duplicated and forged. It was expected to be used in biometric authentication technology to achieve an ideal accuracy with the uniqueness of its characteristics. In this study, 240 images of 80 users were obtained from Bosphorus Hand Vein Database. The images were then pre-processed by cropping ROI, mean filtering, CLAHE enhancing and histogram equalizing. The ROI was then segmented by implementing binarization. The local binary pattern (LBP) features were then extracted from the binarized image. The extracted features were sent to an artificial neural network (ANN) for the classification of the images. The training result shows that the LBP features and ANN can recognize the dorsal hand vein pattern quite well with 90% recognition rate. The NN net was then utilized in the MATLAB GUI program for testing 100 images (80 trained images of 80 users and 20 untrained images of 20 users) from the Bosphorus Hand Vein Database. The results revealed 100% accuracy in their matching result.