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Feature-level fusion of finger biometrics based on Multi-set Canonical Correlation Analysis

  • Jialiang Peng
  • , Qiong Li*
  • , Qi Han
  • , Xiamu Niu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Feature fusion-based multimodal biometrics has become an increasing interest to many researchers in recent years, particularly for finger biometrics. In this paper, a novel multimodal finger biometric method based on Multi-set Canonical Correlation Analysis (MCCA) is proposed. It combines finger vein, fingerprint, finger shape and finger knuckle print features of a single human finger. The proposed approach transforms multiple unimodal feature vectors into sets of canonical correlation variables, which represent fused features more efficiently in few dimensions. The experimental results on a merged multimodal finger biometric database show that the proposed approach has significant improvements over the existing approaches. It is beneficial to fuse multiple features as well as achieves lower error rates.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBiometric Recognition - 8th Chinese Conference, CCBR 2013, Proceedings
Pages216-224
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2012 - Jinan, China
Duration: 16 Nov 201317 Nov 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8232 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2012 International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityJinan
Period16/11/1317/11/13

Keywords

  • Feature fusion
  • Finger
  • Multi-set Canonical Correlation Analysis
  • Multimodal

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