Real-Time Model-Based Hand Localization for Unsupervised Palmar Image Acquisition

  • Authors:
  • Ivan Fratric;Slobodan Ribaric

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia 10000;Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia 10000

  • Venue:
  • ICB '09 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Biometrics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Unsupervised and touchless image acquisition are two problems that have recently emerged in biometric systems based on hand features. We have developed a real-time model-based hand localization system for palmar image acquisition and ROI extraction. The system operates on video sequences and produces a set of palmprint regions of interest (ROIs) for each sequence. Hand candidates are first located using Viola-Jones approach and then the best candidate is selected using model-fitting approach. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the system for unsupervised palmar image acquisition in terms of speed and localization accuracy.