A low-cost multimodal biometric sensor to capture finger vein and fingerprint

Multimodal biometric systems based on fingerprint and finger vein modality provide promising features useful for robust and reliable identity verification. In this paper, we present a robust imaging device that can capture both fingerprint and finger vein simultaneously. The presented low-cost sensor employs a single camera followed by both near infrared and visible light sources organized along with the physical structures to capture good quality finger vein and fingerprint samples. We further present a novel finger vein recognition algorithm that explores both the maximum curvature method and Spectral Minutiae Representation (SMR). Extensive experiments are carried out on our newly collected database that comprises of 1500 samples of fingerprint and finger vein from 150 unique fingers corresponding to 41 subjects. Our results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed sensor with a lowest Equal Error Rate of 0.78%.

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