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INTRODUCTION

With the increase in technology threat to personal data and national security had also increased. The methods that were developed to secure important information from outside intervention were not up to safe mark .There was a need to introduce a technology that secures our data more efficiently from unlawful intervention . Fujitsu has developed a palm vein pattern authentication technology that uses vascular patterns as personal identification data .Vein recognition technology is secure because the authentication data exists inside the body and is therefore very difficult to forge. It is highly accurate. This technology can be used in various fields like banking, hospitals, government offices, in passport issuing etc. Business growth will be achieved with these solutions by reducing the size of the palm vein sensor and shortening the authentication time. Hand vein is a biometric modality that seems promising as it is acquired in Near Infrared light (NIR), which implies that skin variations and dirtiness are less sensible than in visible light. Moreover, the haemoglobin which flows in the veins is sensible to NIR light, this way allowing a good quality of acquisition of the hand veins. It is possible to use either the back of the hand or the hand palm. A recent study using back hand vein data and tested with 5 sessions per person and 50 persons showed promising results. The main problem of this database is the low resolution of the images (images at resolution 132x124 pixels).

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CHAPTER-1

INTRODUCTION TO BIOMETRICS

1.1 WHAT ISBIOMETRICS?

Automated measurement of Physiological and/or behavioral characteristics to

determine or authenticate identity is known as Biometrics [5]. Three components of above definition will determine what is and what is not a biometric and also its different types and functionalities. Lets start with the First component of the definition: Automated measurement, which means no human intervention or involvement is required. Biometrics are automated in as much as the processes involved in sample acquisition, feature extraction, record retrieval, and algorithm-based matching are computerized or machine-based. Also the record retrieval and comparison against another measurement must take place in RealTime. So for an instance, DNA sampling is NOT a biometric measurement because today it still requires human intervention and its NOT done in real time. The second component of the definition: Physiological and/or behavioral characteristics,

determine the two main biometric categories: behavioral and physiological. The behavioral characteristics measure the movement of a user, when users walk, speak, type on a keyboard or sign their name. The physiological characteristics would be the physical human traits like fingerprints, hand shape, eyes and face, veins, etc., and the last component of the definition is determine or authenticate identity, which categorizes the two types of biometric functionalities[5]. The first type is identification systems or the systems that answer the question who am I? and determine the identity of a person. The second type is verification systems or systems that answer the question, am I who I claim to be? and authenticate a person. An example of an Identification System using biometrics would be: You approach an ATM with NO card, NO claimed identity, NO PIN. The ATM scans your iris and determines who you are and gives you access to your money.

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An example of a Verification System using biometrics would be: You approach an ATM and swipe a card or enter an account number. The ATM scans your iris and uses it as a password to authenticate you are the rightful owner of the card and therefore give you access to your money.

1.2 USAGE OF BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY MINIMIZES RISKS

The person, who has my office id card, can The person, who has my house key, can The person, who knows my password, can The person, who knows the pin number of my credit card, can The person, who is able to forge my signature, can The person, who steals my passport, can

1.3 BIOMETRICS-SECURITY &CONVENIENCE

Fig-1.1 Threats in various security systems

Biometrics is more convenient and secure than other security methods like key, ID card,
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PIN code etc., because someone can lose the key or ID card and may forget the PIN code but in case of Biometrics where your body part or the some of your behaviour is your identity which you cannot lose or forget. Even the palm vein patterns of identical twins dont match. Also no human is involved and the system is fully automated so chances of biasing or misuse of the identity is minimized. Also biometric features of an individual cannot be copied easily with perfection.

1.4BIOMETRICFEATURES
It becomes obsolete to beware passwords safely or to remember to all of them. Abuse of stolen id cards and passports will be reduced enormously. Abuse of stolen credit cards will be prevented. Taking over foreign identities will be impossible. Building access right to people without the right of admittance will be prevented. Access to devices/computers will be not possible for persons without the right of admittance. Unnecessary costs will be drastically reduced. Level of common convenience and safety will grow.

CHAPTER 2

PALM VEIN TECHNOLOGY REVIEWS

2.1 THEBASISOFPALM VEINTECHNOLOGY

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Every individual have unique pattern of Palm veins, so the palm vein pattern is used to authenticate some individuals identity. The process of authentication and registration is discussed in next topics. An individual first rests his wrist, and on some devices, the middle of his fingers, on the sensor's supports such that the palm is held centimetres above the device's scanner, which flashes a near-infrared ray on the palm [6]. Unlike the skin, through which near-infrared light passes, deoxygenated haemoglobin in the blood flowing through the veins absorbs near-infrared rays, illuminating the haemoglobin, causing it to be visible to the scanner.

Fig-2.1 Palm vein scanning [2]

Arteries and capillaries, whose blood contains oxygenated haemoglobin, which does not absorb near-infrared light, are invisible to the sensor. The still image captured by the camera, which photographs in the near-infrared range, appears as a black network, reflecting the palm's vein pattern against the lighter background of the palm. An individual's palm vein image is converted by algorithms into data points, which is then compressed, encrypted, and stored by the software and registered along with the other details in his profile as a reference for future comparison. Then, each time a person logs in attempting to gain access by a palm scan to a particular bank account or secured entryway, etc., the newly captured image is likewise processed and compared to the registered one or to the bank of stored files for verification, all in a period of seconds.

Numbers and positions of veins and their crossing points are all compared and, depending on verification, the person is either granted or denied access.

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2.2REGISTERINGTHROUGH P.V.T.
STEP 1: Palm vein authentication technology consists of a small Palm vein scanner that's easy and natural to use, fast and highly accurate. Simply hold your palm a few centimetres over the scanner.

Fig-2.2 A view from scanning device [2]

STEP 2:

Scanner makes

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special characteristic

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the

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haemoglobin coursing through the palm veins; it absorbs near-infrared light. This makes it possible to take a snapshot of whats beneath the outer skin, something very hard to read or steal.

Fig-2.3 View of palm pattern at various stages of registering palm vein pattern

STEP 3: The integrated optical system in the palm vein sensor uses this phenomenon to generate an image of the palm vein pattern and the generated image is digitized, encrypted and finally stored as a registered template in the database.

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2.3WORKINGOFPALM VEINTECHNOLOGY
Once the palm vein pattern is registered in the system, user can authenticate him/herself in the system. The working of Palm Vein Technology is described in following steps [2]. STEP 1: Hold your palm over the palm vein image sensor and camera which will take the snapshot of palm.

Fig-2.4 Palm vein image sensor and palm image captured. [3]

STEP 2: Now palm image is processed and digitalized with the help of algorithm implemented in the system

Fig-2.5 Magnified view of palm vein pattern. [4] STEP 3: This digitalized image is matched with the previously stored database and authenticates user identity.

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2.4PERFORMANCEMETRICS OFBIOMETRICSYSTEM
FALSE ACCEPTANCE RATE (FAR) The probability that the system incorrectly matches the input pattern to a non-matching template in the database. It measures the percent of invalid inputs which are incorrectly accepted [5].

FALSE REJECTION RATIO FRR The probability that the system fails to detect a match between the input pattern and a matching template in the database. It measures the percent of valid inputs which are incorrectly rejected [5].

2.5HOWSECURE ISTHE TECHNOLOGY?

On the basis of testing the technology on more than 70,000 individuals , Fujitsu declared that the new system had a FRR of 0.01% FAR of 0.00008% . Also, if your
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profile is registered with your right hand, don't log in with your left - the patterns of an

individual's two hands differ. And if you registered your profile as a child , it'll still be recognized as you grow, as an individual's patterns of veins are established in uterus (before birth). No two people in the world share a palm vein pattern, even those of

identical twins differ. In addition the device ability to perform personal authentication was verified using the following: 1. Data from people ranging from 6 to 85 years old including people in various occupations in accordance with the demographics realized by the Statistics Canter of the Statistics Bureau. 2. Data about foreigners living in Japan in accordance with the world demographics released by the United Nations. 3. Data taken in various situations in daily life including after drinking alcohol, taking bath, going outside and waking up.

2.6FEATURES OFPALM VEINTECHNOLOGY

1. The human palm vein pattern is extremely complex and it shows a huge number of vessels. 2. The biometric information is located inside the human body, and therefore it is protected against forgery and manipulation. 3. The position of the palm vein vessels remain the same for the whole life and its pattern is absolutely unique. 4. The enrolment of the palm vein pattern can be done without any physical contact to the sensor. 5. Skin colour, skin dirtying, surface wounds, skin humidity, skin temperature, aging do not have major influence to enrol and to authenticate the palm vein pattern correctly. 6. Palm Secure is based on a near infrared method, and it has no negative influence to the health. 7. Since it is contact less and uses infrared beam, it is more hygienic.

2.7WHAT HAPPENS IFTHE REGISTEREDPALM GETS DAMAGED?

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There may be a chance that the palm we had registered may get damaged then we cannot use this technology, so during the time of registration we take the veins of both the hands so that if one gets damaged we can access through the second hand. When hand get damaged up to large extent we can get veins because deeper into the hand veins are obtained.

Fig-2.8 registering vein pattern of both palms simulteniously

Chapter-3

PALM VEIN PATTERN EXTRACTION

Palm Vein Technology uses different algorithms and programmes for different stages of the technology [6]. Also different algorithms are proposed for same processes like ICP (Iterative Closest Point), P2PM (Point to Point Matching), SMM (Similarity based Mixed Matching) etc. which we will discuss in next chapter. Usually, in the image-based biometric systems, a number of pre-processing tasks are required prior to enhance the image quality, such as: contrast, brightness, edge information, noise removal, sharpen image, etc, furthermore, to produce a better quality of image that will be used on the later stage as an input image and assuring that relevant information can be detected. Actually, the better quality of image will gain the better accuracy rate to the biometric system itself. In this paper we propose three required pre-processing tasks which are as follow: 1. Vascular pattern marker algorithm 2. Vascular pattern extraction algorithm 3. Vascular pattern thinning algorithm After vascular pattern thinning, extracted image is matched with the previously stored
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database, for which various algorithm are used which are to be discussed in next chapter. Here we will discuss the palm vein pattern extraction [6].

3.1VASCULAR PATTERN MARKER ALGORITHM 1. Open Near-Infrared Palm Image File in input mode. 2. Convert the Loaded Image into Planar Image. 3. Set the Horizontal and Vertical kernels (3 x 3), respectively as follow:

1 3 1

0 0 0

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1 0 -1 3x3

4. Generated Planar Image in Step2, is passed through kernels created in Step3.

3.2VASCULAR PATTERN EXTRACTIONALGORITHM

a. Open resultant Greyscale Image File from Vascular Pattern Marker Algorithm, in input mode b. c. d. e. f. g. h. Open Binary Image File in output mode While not End of File Loop Read pixel intensity value If pixel intensity value lies in between 20 and 130, then Convert the intensity value to 0 (black) Else5. Modified fine-grained Planar Image is stored into another

Greyscale Image File. 6. Close all Image file(s). Here we are considering monochrome binary Image, two-pass masking is used, namely, Horizontal and Vertical kernels. The Planar Image now passed through these masks or kernels. Resultant transformed Image generates the distinct marks of Vascular Pattern; the process is Smoothing the Image [6].
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i. j. k. l. m. End Loop End if

Convert the intensity value to 255 (white)

Write the intensity value to Binary Image

Close all Image Files

Thresholding is an image processing technique for converting a greyscale or colour image to a binary image based upon a threshold value. If a pixel in the image has an intensity value less than the threshold value, the corresponding pixel in the resultant image is set to black. Otherwise, if the pixel intensity value is greater than or equal to the threshold intensity, the resulting pixel is set to white. Thus, creating a binarized image, or an image with only two colours, black (0) and white (255). Image thresholding is very useful for keeping the significant part of an image and getting rid of the unimportant part or noise. This holds true under the assumption that a reasonable threshold value is chosen. In our case the threshold range is taken 20 to 130. Threshold range may vary but a large range results into higher EER [6].

3.3VASCULAR PATTERN THINNING ALGORITHM

a. Open the Resultant Binary Image File generated from Vascular Pattern Extraction Algorithm, in input mode b. Read each pixel intensity value and stored into corresponding location of a 2dimensional Matrix c. Matrix processing as following steps: int rows = Image Width, columns = Image Height; for(int i = 0; i < rows; ++i) { for(int j = 0; j < columns; ++j) {
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if((i==0) || (j==0) || (i==(rows-1)) || (j==(columns-1))) matrix[i][j] = -1; } } for(int r = 1; r < rows-1; r++) { for(int c = 1; c < columns-1; c++) { if((matrix[r][c] != -1)) { if (((matrix[r][c+1] != -1) || (matrix[r][c-1] != -1)) &&((matrix[r+1][c] != -1) || (matrix[r-1][c] != -1))) { matrix[r][c] = -1 ; } } } } for(int r = 1; r < rows-1; r++) { for(int c = 1; c < columns-1; c++) { if((matrix[r][c] != -1)) { if(((matrix[r][c-1] == -1)) && ((matrix[r][c+1] == -1))) { if(((matrix[r-1][c] == -1)) && ((matrix[r+1][c] == -1))) { matrix[r][c] = -1; } } } } }
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d. e.

Write the 2 Dimensional Matrixes into a Binary Image File. Close all Image Files

Generated Binary Image is stored in the Image Database. For each individual one or multiple images are required to be stored. More Images for an individual are desired for perfect Identification of the corresponding individual in future. Thinning is done for capturing the Vascular Pattern of hand Palm of an individual.

3.4PALM VEINEXTRACTION(Mathematicalapproach)
In the above sections, we have discussed about the programming algorithm part of palm vein extraction process. Here we will discuss the mathematical approach for the palm vein extraction. For palm vein extraction generally Multiscale Gaussian Matched filter is used. Details of this method including mathematical equations are as follows:

Fig 3.1(a) shows an infrared image of a palm, which contains palm vein information. ROI (with a fixed size of 128*128 pixels) is extracted according to the two key points between fingers, as shown in Fig 3.1(b). There may be different ways to select ROI for different devices [7].

Fig-3.1 (a) an infrared palm image; (b) ROI extraction. [7]

After ROI is extracted, a Multiscale Gaussian Matched filter was used to extract the structure information of palm vein. Since the cross-sections of palm veins are Gaussianshaped lines, it is natural to choose a Gaussian Matched filter to extract palm vein [7]. The Gaussian Matched filter was defined as (3.1), where g(x,y) = Gaussian filter function
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= filter direction, = standard deviation of Gaussian, m = mean value of the filter, L = length of the filter in y direction. S = scale to reduce the window size.

(3.1)

Fig 3.2 Palm vein extraction.(a) ROI; (b)&(c) response of match filter at different scales.[7]

To reduce noise in the matched filter responses, a multiscale scheme is adopted. In this scheme, the scale s is used to regulate size of the filter window: |x '| 3sx, |y'| sL/2. By using two different scales, we can get two different filter responses. And it has been proved that the production of two filter responses at different scales can greatly reduce the noise.

Fig 3.2 (d) scale production of (b),(c); (e) binarized image of (d); (f) thinned image of (e).[7]

After a low-noise palm vein image is obtained, some post processing operations such as binarizing and thinning are applied. Fig-3.2 shows an example of the Multiscale Gaussian
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Matched filter responses and palm vein extraction of an infrared palm image.

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Chapter-4

PALM VEIN PATTERN MATCHING

In the previous chapter we have discussed about the extraction of palm vein pattern by infrared imaging using infrared sensors and also discussed about the different algorithms used in palm vein extraction. In this chapter we will discuss the next process in the palm vein authentication system i.e. mathematical algorithms for different pre-processes and comparison among the different matching algorithms like ICP (Iterative Closest Point), P2PM (Point to Point Matching), SMM (Similarity based Mixed Matching) etc. Also differences, drawbacks and advantaged of them will be discussed.

4.1POINT TOPOINT MATCHINGMETHOD

The point-to-point matching (P2PM) method is the most popular method in template matching. This method matches two images through logical exclusive or operation [7]. Let A and B be the two binarized images, then their matching score S(A,B) is calculated as:

(4.7)

Where A and B have the same size m x n. Though this method has many advantages such as low complexity, it suffers from the problem of rotation and translation. Hence P2PM method cannot get high accuracy. The authors tried to overcome rotation and shift problem by translating the matching template vertically and horizontally. However, they cannot solve the problem thoroughly, especially the rotation problem. The input of P2PM method is binarized images instead of thinned images. We have tested the performance of P2PM on the thinned images and found that P2PM got much lower accuracy. The reason is that thinned images lose much information which may be useful for template matching. To overcome these limitations, we improve P2PM and give another template matching method, which is called Similarity-based Mix Matching (SMM) method. This method is
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discussed in brief in next topic.

4.2SIMILARITY-BASEDMIXMATCHING
The idea of this matching method can be summarized as follows: Denote Img1 and Img2 as two binarized images, and Thin1 and Thin2 as their thinned images respectively[7]. Let S1, S2 be the matching score of (Img1 and Thin2), (Img2 and Thin1) respectively. Then the matching score of Img1 and Img2 is (S1+S2)/2. We define the matching score of a binarized image and a thinned image as.

(4.8)

where I is the binarized image, H is the thinned image, H is a sub-image of H which takes part in the matching. Experiments show that the performance of SMM is much better than P2PM. But it still has trouble with the rotation problem. In some situations, P2PM method and SMM method would give wrong judgments, especially when the rotation is large. Fig. 12(a) and (d) are two palm vein images from the same palm, where (d) is obtained by rotating (a) for 18 degrees clockwise. The matching scores calculated by the above three methods are listed in Table 1. From the results of these three matching experiments, we can see that only our method (denoted as ICPM) can decide that (a) and (d) are from the same palm when the rotation is large.

Fig-4.1 An example. (a) ROI; (b)binarized image; (c)thinned image; (d) an image obtained by rotating picture (a) for 18 degrees clockwise; (e)&(f)similar meaning as (b)&(c) respectively. [7]

4.3EXPERIMENTSANDRESULTS
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The experiments are based on a palm vein database which includes 6000 images from 500 different palms (12 samples for each palm). These images are captured by a self designed and low cost near infrared CCD camera. The process of a matching experiment includes several steps: palm vein extraction, matching and decision-making. In the following experiments, Equal error rate (EER) is used to measure the performance of every method. EER is a classical criterion to evaluate a biometric system or algorithm [7]. It is the rate at which both false acceptance rate (FAR) and false rejection rate (FRR) are equal. The lower the EER is, the better the systems performance is. Firstly, the methods LHD and MHD which are used in hand vein matching are tested on a small database, which is a subset of the large database described above, contains 1000 images from 100 different palms (10 images for each palm). The experiment results show that the EERs of LHD and MHD are higher than 5%. The EERs of LHD method are both 0, but their databases are small, which only contain 270 and 108 images respectively, and the quality of hand vein images is better than palm vein images, since they used more expensive cameras. The EER of MHD in is 0 too. The reasons are similar as above, the testing database only has hand vein images from 47 people, and the images were captured by an expensive infrared thermal camera. Besides, the line features and minutiae features are very sensitive to the image noise, rotation and shift. Secondly, to compare the performance of P2PM, SMM and ICPM, the database is divided into two non-overlapping groups: gallery and probe group. The gallery group includes 500 images, where each palm provides one image. The probe group includes the rest of 5500 images. In the following experiments, each image in probe group is compared with all of the images in the gallery group. Hence, there would be 5005500=2,750,000 times of matching. A successful matching is called intra-class matching or genuine if the two samples are from the same class (i.e. the same palm). Otherwise, the unsuccessful matching is called interclass matching or impostor.

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Fig-4.2(a) gives the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves for the P2PM, SMM and ICPM methods respectively. From this figure, we can find that the ICPM method has

much higher accuracy than P2PM and SMM since for every same false accept rate, ICPM has higher genuine rate than the other two methods.

Fig 4.2 Experiment results: (a) ROC curves of the P2PM, SMM and ICPM. [7]

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Fig-4.2 Experiment results: (b) Similarity distribution of the ICPM method. [7]

Fig 4.2(b) plots the curve of Genuine and Impostor similarity distribution for the ICPM method. The distribution curves help to set up a threshold to separate the genuine from the impostor. The threshold value is obtained from the intersect point of these two curves. So the less these two curves overlap, the lower EER the corresponding method has.

Table 2 lists the detail comparison of these three methods. It can be seen that the proposed ICPM method has the lowest EER. The P2PM method is achieved 98.8% recognition rate where the false acceptance rate is 5.5%. Authors got 99% recognition rate where the FAR is 6%~7%. According to the experiment results, the ICPM method can operate at genuine acceptance rate (GAR) of 99.41% while the corresponding false acceptance rate is 0.53%.

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Table 1: Results of three matching experiments [7]. Score P2PM SSM ICPM 0.69725 0.28430 0.80000 Threshold <0.28000 >0.33000 >0.28000 Decision Wrong Wrong Right

Table 2: Detail comparison of the three methods [7]. FAR P2PM SSM ICPM 1.885% 0.607 0.533% FFR 3.473% 0.673% 0.582% EER 2.679% 0.639% 0.577%

4.4CONCLUSION
From the results of above experiments, we can see that ICPM is better than all the other methods. It comes from the fact that ICPM can effectively and accurately correct the rotation and shift variations between palm vein images, which consequently improves the accuracy of palm vein verification. So most of the Palm Secure devices use ICPM.

Chapter-5

COMPARISON WITH OTHER

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BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGIES
In this chapter we will compare the palm vein technology with biometric technologies. Also limitations and advantages of these biometric technologies are discussed in this chapter.

5.1VOICE PRINT
Voice verification is a biometric authentication technology well suited for applications and systems in which other biometric technologies would be difficult or inconvenient to implement. This form of biometric is most often deployed in environments where the voice is already captured, such as telephony and call centres. Making use of distinctive qualities of a person's voice, some of which are behaviourally determined and others of which are physiologically determined; voice verification is typically deployed in such areas as home improvement and security, banking account access, home PC, network access, and many others [8]. Some of the key advantages and disadvantages for voice recognition technology are listed below:

Fig-5.1 Voice print. [8] ADVANTAGES Easy to use and requires no special training or equipment. Relatively inexpensive compared to other biometrics. Consumers prefer to use voiceprints over other biometric technology for identification according to a Chase banks research study.

DISADVANTAGES When processing a persons voice over multiple channels such a microphone and then over a telephone reduces the recognition rate.
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Physical conditions of the voice, such as those due to sickness, affect the voice verification process.

5.2FINGER/PALMPRINT
A fingerprint usually appears as a series of dark lines that represent the high, peaking portion of the friction ridge skin, while the valleys between these appears as white space and are the low, shallow portion of the friction ridge skin[9]. Fingerprint identification is based primarily on the minutiae, or the location and direction of the ridge endings and bifurcations along a ridge path. The images below presents examples of the other detailed characteristics sometimes used during the automatic classification and minutiae extraction processes.

Fig-5.2 Finger prints. [9]

ADVANTAGES Since fingerprints are the composition of protruding sweat glands, everyone has unique fingerprints. They do not change naturally. Fingerprint recognition equipment is relatively low-priced compared to other biometric system and R&D investments are very robust in this field. DISADVANTAGES Vulnerable to noise and distortion brought on by dirt and twists. Some people may feel offended about placing their fingers on the same place where many other people have continuously touched.

5.3FACE RECOGNITION
Every face has numerous, distinguishable landmarks, the different peaks and valleys that
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make up facial features. It defines these landmarks as nodal points. Each human face has approximately 80 nodal points. Some of these measured by the software are: Distance between the eyes Width of the nose Depth of the eye sockets The shape of the cheekbones The length of the jaw line

Fig-5.3 Nodal points and Face print. [10] ADVANTAGES Non intrusive, privacy cannot be invaded easily. Cheap technology. It requires small data base.

DISADVANTAGES 2D recognition is affected by changes in lighting, the persons hair, the age, and if the person wear glasses. It also depends on orientation/angle of users face with camera. Requires camera equipment for user identification; thus, it is not likely to become popular until most PCs include good resolution cameras as standard equipment.

5.4IRIS SCAN
Iris recognition is the process of recognizing a person by analyzing the random pattern of the iris. The iris muscle within the eye regulates the size of the pupil, controlling the amount of light that enters the eye [8]. It is the coloured portion of the eye with colouring
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based on the amount of melatonin pigment within the muscle. Although the colouration and structure of the iris is genetically linked, the details of the patterns are not. The iris develops during prenatal growth through a process of tight forming and folding of the tissue membrane. Prior to birth, degeneration occurs, resulting in the pupil opening and random, unique patterns of the iris. ADVANTAGES Very high accuracy. Verification time is generally less than 5 seconds. The eye from a dead person would deteriorate too fast to be useful, so no extra precautions have to been taken with retinal scans to be sure the user is a living human being.

Fig-5.4 Iris and Iris pattern of human eye. [8]

DISADVANTAGES Intrusive. A lot of memory for the data to be stored. Very expensive.

5.5COMPARISION
Table-3: Comparison with other technologies based on FRR and FAR Technology Palm vein Finger print Iris / Retina Voice FAR 0.00008 % 1-2 % 0.0001-0.94 % 2% FRR 0.01 % 3% 0.99-0.2 % 10 %
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Fig-5.6 Graph created from the data in table-3. [2]

Fig-5.9 Comparison on the basis of some basic factors. [12]

Chapter-6
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APPLICATIONS
This palm vein authentication technology is used in various areas for more security. The following are some of the important areas where it is used:

6.1ATMANDBANKING
In July 2004, to ensure customer security, Suruga bank launched its Bio Security Deposit the worlds first financial service to use Palm Secure . This service features
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high security for customers using vein authentication , does not require a bank card or pass book and prevents withdrawals from branches other than the registered

branch and ATMs thereby minimizing the risk of fraudulent withdrawals. To open a Bio-Security Deposit account, customers go to a bank and have their palm veins photographed at the counter in order to guarantee secure data management, the palm vein data is stored only on the vein data base server at the branch office where the account is opened. In Oct 2004, The Bank of Tokyo launched its Super IC Card. This card combines the functions of a bankcard, credit card, electronic money and palm vein authentication. This Super IC Card contains the customers palm Vein data and vein Authentication algorithms and reforms vein Authentication by itself. This system is advantageous

because the customers information is not stored at the bank

6.2PERSONAL COMPUTERS
In personal computers palm vein technology can be applied by inserting the vein sensor inside mouse or on the keyboard. When power is supplied to system the mouse/keyboard also gets power and the sensor in the mouse/keyboard will be ready to sense palm veins. One can use this technology even to lock folders , that should be maintained as private information. This technology will be very helpful in protecting data saved in computers and highly reducing the hacking of password.

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Fig-6.1 use of PVT (a) in ATM (b) in personal computers. [1]

6.3IN HOSPITALS ANDLIBRARYS

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PalmSecure device can also be used in hospitals for doctor and patients identification and where the high level of security is required.

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Fig-6.2 PVT used in (a) Library (b) Hospitals for authentication. [13]

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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

Palm vein technology has comparatively much more positives than negatives. Some of them are discussed earlier in the report and now we will discuss all in detail.

7.1ADVANTAGES
1. Palm vein authentication can be done using the vascular pattern on the back of a hand or a finger. However, the palm vein pattern is the most complex and covers the widest area, because the palm has no hair, it is easier to photograph its vascular

pattern. The palm also has no significant variations in skin colour compared with fingers or back of the hand, where the colour can darken in certain areas. Also we can
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use fusion of two technologies, palm vein and palm print, which will be more complex and more reliable but costly. 2. FRR and FAR are very low in comparison to other biometric technologies. So it is more secure and reliable. 3. Palm vein pattern of any individual cannot be theft. Also since it is contactless, privacy cannot be invaded. 4. The where completely high contactless feature of this device makes it suitable for use hesitation

levels of

hygiene are required. It also eliminates any

people might have about coming into contact with something that other people have already touched.

7.2DISADVANTAGES
The only weaknesses of palm vein biometric system are the different factor that affects the quality of captured image. Such factors include body temperature, ambient temperature and humidit, and nearness of the vein to surface and camera calibration and focus. Most of these factors are natural cause which is difficult to overcome

CHAPTER-8

CONCLUESION
After discussing all about the Palm Vein Technology, now we will talk about the technical specifications of the palm secure device, such as size of sensor used, verification time software used etc.

8.1TECHNICALSPECIFICATIONSOF DEVICE
Sensor size Recording position Verification time (1:1) Identification time (1:n) Template size : 35x35x27 mm : 4-6 cm over the Sensor; 0, 90, 180 ,270, 360 : 1,5 sec : =/> 3 sec : 0,8 KB

Amount of templates / person : 2 FAR FRR : 0,000 08% : 0,01%

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Interface Encryption Software SDK Power Supply Scan

: USB 2 : AES : Device driver for WIN 2000/XP und LINUX, PC Log in : Template Library SW, Tool & Adjustment, SW Demo SW : <2.5W for sensor, around 5W for CPU : Contactless, distance to sensor 5cm +/ 1cm, Scanning method delivers life detection for free

Insensitive

: Almost insensitive against ambient light (outdoor use possible, no direct sunlight or lamp)

Fast enrolment I/O interface

: 10s-20s : Wiegand I/O, system will easily fit in present installations; Seamless links to video management platformCware and therefore interacts with CCTV and additional applications

Operating temperature

: 0oC to 60oC

8.2CONCLUSION
In this report we have discussed all about Palm Vein Technology. Palm vein technology is the new face of the biometric. It provides the maximum security as compared to other biometric technologies because it uses information contained within the body and is also highly accurate because the pattern of veins in the palm is complex and unique to each individual. It also gives least FRR, FAR, EER among them. Also verification time is less as compared to other technologies. Since in this technology ICP method is used which is free from orientation and rotational problems of the image. Also there is no disadvantage. As discussed earlier, by using multimodal of fusion of other technology with PVT will make it more secure. Moreover, its contactless feature gives it a hygienic advantage over other biometric authentication technologies. This paper also describes some examples of financial solutions and product applications for the general market that have been developed based on this technology. Many of customers have favourably evaluated this technology and have experienced no psychological resistance to using it. This has encouraged manufacturers and developers to start development of new products for
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various applications, beginning with financial solutions and followed by access control units and login units. Manufacturers and developers are working on reducing the size of the device in order to expand the range of application of the device. Fujitsu is continuing the work on reducing the size and improving the technology so that it can be more secure and have lesser FAR, FRR and EER.

REFERENCES
1.White Paper Palm Vein Authentication. 2006 Fujitsu Computer Products for America, Inc, 2.Biometric security-Fujitsu Palm Vein Technology by Bao Nguyen, Henrik Nilsen, Yoonjin Kim (Information Technology Department NNK Investment & Banking).

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ACRONYMS
ATM CER DNA DSR EER FAR FRR FTC FTE FTR GAR ICPM LHD MHD NIR NTSC OEM P2PM PS PVT ROC ROI SDK SMM SVD : Automated Teller Machine : Crossover Error Rate : Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid : Dynamic Signature Recognition : Equal Error Rate : False Acceptance Rate : False Rejection Rate : Failure To Capture rate : Failure To Enrol rate : Failure to Enrol Rate : Genuine Acceptance Rate : Iterative Closest Point Method : Line segment Hausdorff Distance method : Minutiae analysis and Hausdorff distance method : Near Infra Red light : Nation Technology and Science Centre : Original Equipment Manufacturer : Point To Point Matching method : Palm Secure : Palm Vein Technology : Relative/Receiver Operating Characteristics : Region Of Interest : Software Development Kit : Similarity-based Mix Matching : Singular Value Decomposition

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