FPGA Implementation Of Hand Veins Recognition System

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.