Biometric personal authentication using images of forearm vein patterns

Abstract

Forearm vein recognition is one of the methods used for identification. In this paper forearms vein features are used for recognition in biometric systems. Forearm vein can be considered more secured compared to other biometric traits because the veins are inside the human body. The forearm recognition has been developed using characteristic points based technique where forearm image is normalized, binarized and thinned, is then a crossing number is used to extract properties of the veins e.g. bifurcation.