Palmprint recognition using eigenpalms features

  • Authors:
  • Guangming Lu;David Zhang;Kuanquan Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Biocomputing Research Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China;Department of Computing, Biometrics Research Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Flat PQ717, Hung Hum, Kowloon, Hong Kong;Biocomputing Research Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a palmprint recognition method based on eigenspace technology. By means of the Karhunen-Loeve transform, the original palmprint images are transformed into a small set of feature space, called "eigenpalms", which are the eigenvectors of the training set and can represent the principle components of the palmprints quite well. Then, the eigenpalm features are extracted by projecting a new palmprint image into the subspace spanned by the "eigenpalms", and applied to palmprint recognition with a Euclidean distance classifier. Experimental results illustrate the effectiveness of our method in terms of the recognition rate.