Journal
IEEE ACCESS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages 16281-16301Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2967771
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Finger-vein recognition; optical blur image restoration; modified conditional GAN; CNN
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Education through the Basic Science Research Program [NRF-2018R1D1A1B07041921]
- NRF - Ministry of Science and ICT through the Basic Science Research Program [NRF-2019R1A2C1083813, NRF-2019R1F1A1041123]
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Among the existing biometrics methods, finger-vein recognition is beneficial because finger-veins patterns are locate under the skin and thus difficult to forge. Moreover, user convenience is high because non-invasive image capturing devices are used for recognition. In real environments, however, optical blur can occur while capturing finger-vein images du to both skin scattering blur caused by light scattering in the skin layer and lens focus mismatch caused by finger movement. The blurred images generated in this manner can cause severe performance degradation for finger-vein recognition. The majority of the previous studies addressed the restoration method o skin scattering blurred images; however, only limited studies have addressed the restoration of optically blurred images. Even the previous studies on the restoration of optical blur restoration have performed restoration based on the estimation of the accurate point spread function (PSF) for a specific image-capturing device. Thus, it is difficult to apply these methods to finger-vein images acquired by different devices. To address this problem, this paperproposes a new method for restoring optically blurred finger-vei images using a modified conditional generative adversarial network (conditional GAN) and recognizing the restored finger-vein images using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN). The results of the experiment performed using two open databases, the Shandong University homologous multimodal traits (SDUMLA-HMT) finger-vein database and Hong Kong Polytechnic University finger-image database (version 1) confirmed that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods.
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