Focussing the Beam - A New Laser Illumination Based Data Set Providing Insights to Finger-Vein Recognition

OpenVein—An Open-Source Modular Multipurpose Finger Vein Scanner Design

“…Among other biometric traits, this database contains dorsal finger vein images captured with the predecessor of our proposed scanner design (PLUSVein-V2), and is publicly available. Our most recent finger vein database is the PLUSVein-FV3 [12], captured using the scanner design presented in this chapter (PLUS OpenVein). This database is publicly available as well.…”

“…This database is publicly available as well. Note that except the GUC-Dors-FV-DB [24] established by the Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory, the PMMDB-FV [33] and the PLUSVein-FV3 dataset [12], which have been captured by members of PLUS, all finger vein datasets are palmar ones. Figure 3.4 shows some example images for the available finger vein datasets (except for PKU and CFVD).…”

“…To demonstrate the high recognition performance that can be achieved by using our proposed scanner design, we established a dataset using both of our scanners, the LED-based version and the laser-based one. This dataset has already been published [12] and is available at: http://www.wavelab.at/sources/PLUSVein-FV3/. The first version contained dorsal finger vein images captured from 60 subjects, 6 fingers per subject and 5 images per finger in one session, summing up to a total of 3600 images from 360 individual fingers (1800 per scanner).…”

“…3.17. In our previous work [12], we reported the recognition performance numbers that can be achieved using the dorsal images of our dataset, and thus our scanner design. We arrived at EERs as low as 0.028% and 0.111% for MC [20]/PC [2] and a SIFTbased approach [14], respectively, with these simple but well-established finger vein recognition schemes.…”

“…This dataset confirms the decent recognition performance that can be achieved using a scanner based on our design. For more details, see [12,13]. Together with other researchers and research institutions, we plan to extend this dataset in order to establish a comprehensive, publicly available finger vein dataset for research purposes.…”