scholarly journals INF-GAN: Generative Adversarial Network for Illumination Normalization of Finger-Vein Images

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (20) ◽  
pp. 2613
Author(s):  
Jin Seong Hong ◽  
Jiho Choi ◽  
Seung Gu Kim ◽  
Muhammad Owais ◽  
Kang Ryoung Park
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Illumination Normalization ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Finger Vein ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Texture Information ◽  
Residual Image ◽  
Fusion Methods ◽  
Vein Recognition ◽  
Severe Degree

When images are acquired for finger-vein recognition, images with nonuniformity of illumination are often acquired due to varying thickness of fingers or nonuniformity of illumination intensity elements. Accordingly, the recognition performance is significantly reduced as the features being recognized are deformed. To address this issue, previous studies have used image preprocessing methods, such as grayscale normalization or score-level fusion methods for multiple recognition models, which may improve performance in images with a low degree of nonuniformity of illumination. However, the performance cannot be improved drastically when certain parts of images are saturated due to a severe degree of nonuniformity of illumination. To overcome these drawbacks, this study newly proposes a generative adversarial network for the illumination normalization of finger-vein images (INF-GAN). In the INF-GAN, a one-channel image containing texture information is generated through a residual image generation block, and finger-vein texture information deformed by the severe nonuniformity of illumination is restored, thus improving the recognition performance. The proposed method using the INF-GAN exhibited a better performance compared with state-of-the-art methods when the experiment was conducted using two open databases, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University finger-image database version 1, and the Shandong University homologous multimodal traits finger-vein database.

scholarly journals Modified Conditional Generative Adversarial Network-Based Optical Blur Restoration for Finger-Vein Recognition

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 16281-16301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiho Choi ◽  
Kyoung Jun Noh ◽  
Se Woon Cho ◽  
Se Hyun Nam ◽  
Muhammad Owais ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Finger Vein ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Vein Recognition ◽  
Optical Blur ◽  
Finger Vein Recognition

scholarly journals Restoration of Motion Blurred Image by Modified DeblurGAN for Enhancing the Accuracies of Finger-Vein Recognition

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 4635
Author(s):  
Jiho Choi ◽  
Jin-Seong Hong ◽  
Muhammad Owais ◽  
Seung-Gu Kim ◽  
Kang-Ryoung Park
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Skin Layer ◽  
Motion Blur ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Finger Vein ◽  
Vein Recognition ◽  
Restoration Method ◽  
Optical Blur ◽  
Blurred Images ◽  
Finger Vein Recognition

Among many available biometrics identification methods, finger-vein recognition has an advantage that is difficult to counterfeit, as finger veins are located under the skin, and high user convenience as a non-invasive image capturing device is used for recognition. However, blurring can occur when acquiring finger-vein images, and such blur can be mainly categorized into three types. First, skin scattering blur due to light scattering in the skin layer; second, optical blur occurs due to lens focus mismatching; and third, motion blur exists due to finger movements. Blurred images generated in these kinds of blur can significantly reduce finger-vein recognition performance. Therefore, restoration of blurred finger-vein images is necessary. Most of the previous studies have addressed the restoration method of skin scattering blurred images and some of the studies have addressed the restoration method of optically blurred images. However, there has been no research on restoration methods of motion blurred finger-vein images that can occur in actual environments. To address this problem, this study proposes a new method for improving the finger-vein recognition performance by restoring motion blurred finger-vein images using a modified deblur generative adversarial network (modified DeblurGAN). Based on an experiment conducted using two open databases, the Shandong University homologous multi-modal traits (SDUMLA-HMT) finger-vein database and Hong Kong Polytechnic University finger-image database version 1, the proposed method demonstrates outstanding performance that is better than those obtained using state-of-the-art methods.

IRIS AND FINGER VEIN MULTI MODEL RECOGNITION SYSTEM BASED ON SIFT FEATURES

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Faris E Mohammed ◽  
Dr. Eman M ALdaidamony ◽  
Prof. A. M Raid
Keyword(s):  
Iris Recognition ◽  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Individual Identification ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Identification Process ◽  
Finger Vein ◽  
Noise Point ◽  
Vein Recognition ◽  
A New Technique

Individual identification process is a very significant process that resides a large portion of day by day usages. Identification process is appropriate in work place, private zones, banks …etc. Individuals are rich subject having many characteristics that can be used for recognition purpose such as finger vein, iris, face …etc. Finger vein and iris key-points are considered as one of the most talented biometric authentication techniques for its security and convenience. SIFT is new and talented technique for pattern recognition. However, some shortages exist in many related techniques, such as difficulty of feature loss, feature key extraction, and noise point introduction. In this manuscript a new technique named SIFT-based iris and SIFT-based finger vein identification with normalization and enhancement is proposed for achieving better performance. In evaluation with other SIFT-based iris or SIFT-based finger vein recognition algorithms, the suggested technique can overcome the difficulties of tremendous key-point extraction and exclude the noise points without feature loss. Experimental results demonstrate that the normalization and improvement steps are critical for SIFT-based recognition for iris and finger vein , and the proposed technique can accomplish satisfactory recognition performance. Keywords: SIFT, Iris Recognition, Finger Vein identification and Biometric Systems.   © 2018 JASET, International Scholars and Researchers Association    

scholarly journals Finger-Vein Recognition Using Heterogeneous Databases by Domain Adaption Based on a Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Network

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 524
Author(s):  
Kyoung Jun Noh ◽  
Jiho Choi ◽  
Jin Seong Hong ◽  
Kang Ryoung Park
Keyword(s):  
Domain Adaptation ◽  
Recognition Accuracy ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Heterogeneous Databases ◽  
Second Best ◽  
Finger Vein ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Image Characteristics ◽  
Vein Recognition ◽  
Finger Vein Recognition

The conventional finger-vein recognition system is trained using one type of database and entails the serious problem of performance degradation when tested with different types of databases. This degradation is caused by changes in image characteristics due to variable factors such as position of camera, finger, and lighting. Therefore, each database has varying characteristics despite the same finger-vein modality. However, previous researches on improving the recognition accuracy of unobserved or heterogeneous databases is lacking. To overcome this problem, we propose a method to improve the finger-vein recognition accuracy using domain adaptation between heterogeneous databases using cycle-consistent adversarial networks (CycleGAN), which enhances the recognition accuracy of unobserved data. The experiments were performed with two open databases—Shandong University homologous multi-modal traits finger-vein database (SDUMLA-HMT-DB) and Hong Kong Polytech University finger-image database (HKPolyU-DB). They showed that the equal error rate (EER) of finger-vein recognition was 0.85% in case of training with SDUMLA-HMT-DB and testing with HKPolyU-DB, which had an improvement of 33.1% compared to the second best method. The EER was 3.4% in case of training with HKPolyU-DB and testing with SDUMLA-HMT-DB, which also had an improvement of 4.8% compared to the second best method.

Near Infrared Finger Vein Recognition Method Based on Subspace Projection Technology

2014 ◽  
Vol 1030-1032 ◽  
pp. 2382-2385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Lin Fan ◽  
Hui Ma ◽  
Ke Jun Wang ◽  
Yong Liang Shen ◽  
Ying Shi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Near Infrared ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Subspace Projection ◽  
Threshold Method ◽  
Finger Vein ◽  
Vein Recognition ◽  
Finger Vein Recognition

Finger vein recognition refers to a recent biometric technique which exploits the vein patterns in the human finger to identify individuals. Finger vein recognition faces a number of challenges. One critical issue is the performance of finger vein recognition system. To overcome this problem, a finger vein recognition algorithm based on one kind of subspace projection technology is presented. Firstly, we use Kapur entropy threshold method to achieve the purpose of intercepting region of finger under contactless mode. Then the finger vein features were extracted by 2DPCA method. Finally, we used of nearest neighbor distance classifier for matching. The results indicate that the algorithm has good recognition performance.

Finger Vein Recognition Based on Stable and Discriminative Superpixels

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (06) ◽  
pp. 1650015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lizhen Zhou ◽  
Gongping Yang ◽  
Yilong Yin ◽  
Lu Yang ◽  
Kuikui Wang
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Fusion Method ◽  
Recognition Method ◽  
Biometric Technology ◽  
Training Images ◽  
Finger Vein ◽  
Vein Recognition ◽  
Matching Score ◽  
Finger Vein Recognition ◽  
Better Than

Finger vein pattern, as a promising hand-based biometric technology, has been well studied in recent years. In this paper, a new superpixel-based finger vein recognition method is presented. In the proposed method, we develop two types of effective superpixels, i.e. stable superpixel and discriminative superpixel to represent finger vein image and these superpixels are expected to play different roles in matching stage. In detail, the stable and discriminative superpixels are firstly learned from the training images for each enrolled class. When verifying a testing image, we just compare the superpixels at the same location as the two types of superpixels in template. Then, the two types of superpixels are combined utilizing a reversible weight-based fusion method in score level. Additionally, to further improve the recognition performance, we explore the superpixel context feature (SPCF). For each superpixel the SPCF is obtained by comparing the current superpixel with its surrounding neighbors. In the final matching stage, we integrate the matching score of two types of superpixels and it of the SPCF using the weighted SUM fusion method. The experimental results on two open finger vein databases, i.e. PolyU and SDUMLA-FV, show that our method not only performs better than the existing superpixel-based method, but also has advantages in comparison with some traditional ones.

scholarly journals Cross-Individual Affective Detection Using EEG Signals with Audio-Visual Embedding

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Liang ◽  
Xihao Zhang ◽  
Rushuang Zhou ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
Linling Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Feature Representation ◽  
Fusion Model ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Brain Data ◽  
Eeg Features

How to effectively and efficiently extract valid and reliable features from high-dimensional electroencephalography (EEG), particularly how to fuse the spatial and temporal dynamic brain information into a better feature representation, is a critical issue in brain data analysis. Most current EEG studies work in a task driven manner and explore the valid EEG features with a supervised model, which would be limited by the given labels to a great extent. In this paper, we propose a practical hybrid unsupervised deep convolutional recurrent generative adversarial network based EEG feature characterization and fusion model, which is termed as EEGFuseNet. EEGFuseNet is trained in an unsupervised manner, and deep EEG features covering both spatial and temporal dynamics are automatically characterized. Comparing to the existing features, the characterized deep EEG features could be considered to be more generic and independent of any specific EEG task. The performance of the extracted deep and low-dimensional features by EEGFuseNet is carefully evaluated in an unsupervised emotion recognition application based on three public emotion databases. The results demonstrate the proposed EEGFuseNet is a robust and reliable model, which is easy to train and performs efficiently in the representation and fusion of dynamic EEG features. In particular, EEGFuseNet is established as an optimal unsupervised fusion model with promising cross-subject emotion recognition performance. It proves EEGFuseNet is capable of characterizing and fusing deep features that imply comparative cortical dynamic significance corresponding to the changing of different emotion states, and also demonstrates the possibility of realizing EEG based cross-subject emotion recognition in a pure unsupervised manner.

scholarly journals FLGC-Fusion GAN: An Enhanced Fusion GAN Model by Importing Fully Learnable Group Convolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Yuan ◽  
C. Q. Sun ◽  
X. Y. Tang ◽  
R. F. Liu
Keyword(s):  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Visual Effects ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Composite Image ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Network Building ◽  
Fusion Methods ◽  
Basic Network ◽  
Public Datasets

The purpose of image fusion is to combine the source images of the same scene into a single composite image with more useful information and better visual effects. Fusion GAN has made a breakthrough in this field by proposing to use the generative adversarial network to fuse images. In some cases, considering retain infrared radiation information and gradient information at the same time, the existing fusion methods ignore the image contrast and other elements. To this end, we propose a new end-to-end network structure based on generative adversarial networks (GANs), termed as FLGC-Fusion GAN. In the generator, using the learnable grouping convolution can improve the efficiency of the model and save computing resources. Therefore, we can have a better trade-off between the accuracy and speed of the model. Besides, we take the residual dense block as the basic network building unit and use the perception characteristics of the inactive as content loss characteristics of input, achieving the effect of deep network supervision. Experimental results on two public datasets show that the proposed method performs well in subjective visual performance and objective criteria and has obvious advantages over other current typical methods.

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