Performance evaluation of finger vein verification algorithms in PFVR2014

Abstract

This paper concerns about the performance evaluation of finger vein verification algorithms. A finger vein verification competition was held by the author of this paper in the 9th Chinese Conference on Biometrics Recognition. The competition itself is called PKU Finger Vein Recognition. This competition aims at studying the state-of-the-art performance of finger vein verification algorithms, mainly in China. This competition used a general recognition algorithm evaluation platform called RATE developed by the author. RATE provides systematic solutions for database management, benchmark generation, and equipped with a distributed computation system for algorithm evaluation. This paper will discuss RATE platform, the data sets and test protocols of the competition, and the analysis of the competition results.