Abstract:
The demand for a reliable and robust personal identification system arises as technology
advances and develops. A biometric system is the key to provide a more secure and
reliable personal identification system. A biometric system verifies user identity by
comparing the behavioral or physiological trait possessed by the user to a previously
stored sample of the trait. This biometric system prevents identity theft by providing
verification accurately. Among them, hand vein biometric system is gaining popularity
and has emerged as new technology in biometric system. This project proposed an design
of biometric hand vein authentication system that involves interface design and software
development. This hand vein system can be divided into two main parts; The Graphical
User Interface (GUI) on a host PC and the biometric hand vein hardware system . The
hand vein image that was captured earlier by specially designed camera that was
connected to the host computer is accessed by the GUI and displayed in GUI. The
Biometric Hand Vein System contains four stages; image acquisition, image processing,
feature extraction and matching stage. After image acquisition through camera, image
processing stage will enhance the hand vein image, the feature extraction stage will
extract the valid minutiae points in template based, and the matching stage will match the
minutiae template with a previously stored template. The results of this work shows the
proposed system with no doubt is functioning correctly.
