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Finger vein recognition deals with the identification of subjects based on their venous pattern within the fingers. The recognition accuracy of finger vein recognition systems suffers from different internal and external factors. One of the major problems are misplacements of the finger during acquisition. In particular longitudinal finger rotation poses a severe problem for such recognition systems. The detection and correction of such rotations is a difficult task as typically finger vein scanners acquire only a single image from the vein pattern. Therefore, important information such as the shape of the finger or the depth of the veins within the finger, which are needed for the rotation detection, are not available. This work presents a CNN based rotation detector that is capable of estimating the rotational difference between vein images of the same finger without providing any additional information. The experiments executed not only show that the method delivers highly accurate results, but it also generalizes so that the trained CNN can also be applied on data sets which have not been included during the training of the CNN. Correcting the rotation difference between images using the CNN&#39;s rotation prediction leads to EER improvements between 50-260\% for a well-established vein-pattern based method (Maximum Curvature) on four public finger vein databases.

ICPR 2020

Rotation Detection in Finger Vein Biometrics using CNNs

longitudinal finger rotation

finger vein recognition

deep learning

ICPR 2020 is the premier international conference on Pattern Recognition, gathering leading researchers from around the world to present their latest achievements in Pattern Analysis and Recognition, applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The topic of the year is " Putting Artificial intelligence to work on Patterns". 
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In this edition of the **ICPR 2020** Conference, there are 1407 Oral/Poster presentations organized in five Tracks: 
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning for Pattern Analysis; 
- Biometrics, Human Analysis and Behavior Understanding; Computer Vision, Robotics and Intelligent Systems; 
- Document and Media Analysis; and 
- Image and Signal Processing. 

The **ICPR 2020** Main Conference program also includes 7 Keynotes from prominent world-renowned scientists, 8 Tutorials, 28 Demos, 8 Challenges, 2 Panels, as well as an Industry/Sponsor Exhibition. In addition, 41 Workshops on a range of important current and emerging research topics complete the ICPR 2020 program. 


Finger vein recognition deals with the identification of subjects based on their venous pattern within the fingers. The recognition accuracy of finger vein recognition systems suffers from different internal and external factors. One of the major problems are misplacements of the finger during acquisition. In particular longitudinal finger rotation poses a severe problem for such recognition systems. The detection and correction of such rotations is a difficult task as typically finger vein scanners acquire only a single image from the vein pattern. Therefore, important information such as the shape of the finger or the depth of the veins within the finger, which are needed for the rotation detection, are not available. This work presents a CNN based rotation detector that is capable of estimating the rotational difference between vein images of the same finger without providing any additional information. The experiments executed not only show that the method delivers highly accurate results, but it also generalizes so that the trained CNN can also be applied on data sets which have not been included during the training of the CNN. Correcting the rotation difference between images using the CNN's rotation prediction leads to EER improvements between 50-260\% for a well-established vein-pattern based method (Maximum Curvature) on four public finger vein databases.

poster

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While control
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We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach on three biological datasets. Our primal-dual method with robust losses, adaptive centers and structured constraints does significantly better than classical methods, both in terms of accuracy and computational time.

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