Infrared Capture of Palm-Vein Blood Vessel Patterns for Human Authentication

Abstract

Biometric Technology is fast taking over from the conventional use of ID Cards, PINs, Tokens and Passwords. This is becoming essential because of the issues of forgotten passwords, stolen ID Cards, compromised tokens and spoofed PINs. Palm-print authentication for access control has been deployed in so many areas of security concern in developing countries. Even though it is still in the theoretical stage in Nigeria, this paper seeks to evaluate the stages involved in the processing of palm-print images for identification or human authentication. It focuses on the feature extraction stage which is where the required features are separated from the others. T