Geometrical local image descriptors for palmprint recognition

Abstract

A new palmprint recognition system is presented here. The method of extracting and evaluating textural feature vectors from palmprint images is tested on the PolyU database. Furthermore, this method is compared against other approaches described in the literature that are founded on binary pattern descriptors combined with spiral-feature extraction. This novel system of palmprint recognition was evaluated for its collision test performance, precision, recall, F-score and accuracy. The results indicate the method is sound and comparable to others already in use.