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Authentication of Individuals using Hand Geometry Biometrics: A Neural Network Approach

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Biometric based systems for individual authentication are increasingly becoming indispensable for protecting life and property. They provide ways for uniquely and reliably authenticating people, and are difficult to counterfeit. Biometric based authenticity systems are currently used in governmental, commercial and public sectors. However, these systems can be expensive to put in place and often impose physical constraint to the users. This paper introduces an inexpensive, powerful and easy to use hand geometry based biometric person authentication system using neural networks. The proposed approach followed to construct this system consists of an acquisition device, a pre-processing stage, and a neural network based classifier. One of the novelties of this work comprises on the introduction of hand geometry’s related, position independent, feature extraction and identification which can be useful in problems related to image processing and pattern recognition. Another novelty of this research comprises on the use of error correction codes to enhance the level of performance of the neural network model. A dataset made of scanned images of the right hand of fifty different people was created for this study. Identification rates and Detection Cost Function (DCF) values obtained with the system were evaluated. Several strategies for coding the outputs of the neural networks were studied. Experimental results show that, when using Error Correction Output Codes (ECOC), up to 100% identification rates and 0% DCF can be obtained. For comparison purposes, results are also given for the Support Vector Machine method.

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  1. Escola Universitària Politècnica de Mataró, Barcelona, Spain

    Marcos Faundez-Zanuy

  2. Centre for Computational Intelligence, School of Computing, Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

    David A. Elizondo

  3. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Departamento de Señales y Comunicaciones, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

    Miguel-Ángel Ferrer-Ballester & Carlos M. Travieso-González

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Faundez-Zanuy, M., Elizondo, D.A., Ferrer-Ballester, MÁ. et al. Authentication of Individuals using Hand Geometry Biometrics: A Neural Network Approach. Neural Process Lett 26, 201–216 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11063-007-9052-y

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