Partial palmprint matching using invariant local minutiae descriptors

Laadjel, Moussadek, Bouridane, Ahmed, Kurugollu, Fatih, Nibouche, Omar and Yan, WeiQi (2010) Partial palmprint matching using invariant local minutiae descriptors. In: Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security V. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6010 . Springer, pp. 1-17. ISBN 978-3-642-14297-0

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Abstract

In forensic investigations, it is common for forensic investigators to obtain a photograph of evidence left at the scene of crimes to aid them catch the culprit(s). Although, fingerprints are the most popular evidence that can be used, scene of crime officers claim that more than 30% of the evidence recovered from crime scenes originate from palms. Usually, palmprints evidence left at crime scenes are partial since very rarely full palmprints are obtained. In particular, partial palmprints do not exhibit a structured shape and often do not contain a reference point that can be used for their alignment to achieve efficient matching. This makes conventional matching methods based on alignment and minutiae pairing, as used in fingerprint recognition, to fail in partial palmprint recognition problems. In this paper a new partial-to-full palmprint recognition based on invariant minutiae descriptors is proposed where the partial palmprint’s minutiae are extracted and considered as the distinctive and discriminating features for each palmprint image. This is achieved by assigning to each minutiae a feature descriptor formed using the values of all the orientation histograms of the minutiae at hand. This allows for the descriptors to be rotation invariant and as such do not require any image alignment at the matching stage. The results obtained show that the proposed technique yields a recognition rate of 99.2%. The solution does give a high confidence to the judicial jury in their deliberations and decision.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Minutiae Descriptor, Orientation Histogram, Partial Palmprint
Subjects:	G400 Computer Science
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User:	Sarah Howells
Date Deposited:	07 Sep 2012 15:26
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 22:26
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8724

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