Hand-Vein Recognition System Sebastian Banescu 11 December 2010 Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Related Work 3 3 Problem Analysis 4 3.1 Data Set ....................................... 4 3.2 Tools and Technologies ............................... 4 4 Design and Implementation 4 4.1 Image Pre-processing ................................ 4 4.1.1 Thinning Algorithm ............................ 5 4.2 ROI Detection ................................... 6 4.2.1 Border Tracing Algorithm ......................... 6 4.2.2 Detect Basic Geometrical Transformations ................ 6 4.3 Line Segments with Hough’s Algorithm ..................... 7 4.3.1 Feature Extraction ............................. 7 4.3.2 Computing Similarity Scores ....................... 8 4.4 Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) ...................... 9 4.4.1 Feature Extraction ............................. 10 4.4.2 Computing Similarity Scores ....................... 10 5 Testing and Results 10 6 Conclusion and Future Work 12 1