Feature level fusion of multi-instance finger knuckle print for person identification

  • Authors:
  • D. S. Guru;K. B. Nagasundara;S. Manjunath

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, India;University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, India;University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of feature level fusion of multi instances of finger knuckle prints. Initially, Zernike moments are extracted for a single instance of finger knuckle print of a person and study the identification accuracy. Subsequently, the effect of identification accuracy using feature level fusion of multi-instances of knuckle prints of a person is studied. As the length of the feature vectors of different instances of knuckle print is same, one could augment the feature vectors to generate a new feature vector. The process of concatenation of feature vectors may lead to the curse of dimensionality problem. In order to handle the curse of dimensionality, the feature dimensions are reduced prior and after the feature sets fusion using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Experiments are conducted on PolyU finger knuckle print database to assess the actual advantage of the fusion of multi-instance knuckle prints performed at the feature extraction level, in comparison to the single instance knuckle print. Further, extensive experimentations are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed method against subspace methods.