Biometrics


We introduce wavelet packet correlation filter classifiers. Correlation filters are traditionally designed in the image domain by minimization of some criterion function of the image training set. Instead, we perform classification in wavelet spaces that have training set representations that provide better solutions to the optimization problem in the filter design. We propose a pruning algorithm to find these wavelet spaces by using a correlation energy cost function, and we describe a match score fusion algorithm for applying the filters trained across the packet tree. The proposed classification algorithm is suitable for any object recognition task. We present results by implementing a biometric recognition system that uses the NIST 24 fingerprint database, and show that applying correlation filters in the wavelet domain results in considerable improvement of the standard correlation filter algorithm.

 

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Pablo Hennings Yeomans, Jason Thornton, Vijayakumar Bhagavatula

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Adaptive Multiresolution Methods for Biometrics

We introduce wavelet packet correlation filter classifiers. Correlation filters are traditionally designed in the image domain by minimization of some criterion function of the image training set. Instead, we perform classification in wavelet spaces that have training set representations that provide better solutions to the optimization problem in the filter design. We propose a pruning algorithm to find these wavelet spaces by using a correlation energy cost function, and we describe a match score fusion algorithm for applying the filters trained across the packet tree. The proposed classification algorithm is suitable for any object recognition task. We present results by implementing a biometric recognition system that uses the NIST 24 fingerprint database, and show that applying correlation filters in the wavelet domain results in considerable improvement of the standard correlation filter algorithm.

P. Hennings Yeomans, J. Thornton, J. Kovačević and B.V.K.V. Kumar, "Wavelet packet correlation methods in biometrics'', Applied Optics, special issue on Biometric Recognition Systems, vol. 44, no. 5, February 2005., pp. 637-646.

J.T. Thornton, P. Hennings Yeomans, J. Kovačević and B.V.K.V. Kumar, ''Wavelet packet correlation methods in biometrics'', Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, and Signal Proc., Philadelphia, PA, March 2005., pp. II:81-84.

An Adaptive Multiresolution Approach to Fingerprint Recognition

We propose an adaptive multiresolution (MR) approach to the classification of fingerprint images. The system adds MR decomposition in front of a generic classifier consisting of feature computation and classification in each MR subspace, yielding local decisions, which are then combined into a global decision using a weighting algorithm. In our previous work on classification of protein subcellular location images, we showed that the space-frequency localized information in the MR subspaces adds significantly to the discriminative power of the system. Here, we go one step farther; We develop a new weighting method which allows for the discriminative power of each subband to be expressed and examined within each class. This, in turn, allows us to evaluate the importance of the information contained within a specific subband. Moreover, we develop a pruning procedure to eliminate the subbands that do not contain useful information.  This leads to potential identification of the appropriate MR decomposition both on a per class basis and for a given dataset.  With this new approach, we make the system adaptive, flexible as well as more accurate and efficient.

A. Chebira, L. P. Coelho, A. Sandryhalia, S. Lin, G. W. Jenkinson, J. MacSleyne, C. Hoffman, P. Cuadra, C. Jackson, M. Püschel and J. Kovačević, "An Adaptive Multiresolution Approach to Fingerprint Recognition", Proc. IEEE Conf. on Image Proc., San Antonio, TX, Sep. 2007. To appear.

 

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A. Chebira, L. P. Coelho, A. Sandryhalia, S. Lin, G. W. Jenkinson, J. MacSleyne, C. Hoffman, P. Cuadra, C. Jackson, M. Püschel and J. Kovačević, "An Adaptive Multiresolution Approach to Fingerprint Recognition", Proc. IEEE Conf. on Image Proc., San Antonio, TX, Sep. 2007. To appear.

P. Hennings Yeomans, J. Thornton, J. Kovačević and B.V.K.V. Kumar, "Wavelet packet correlation methods in biometrics'', Applied Optics, special issue on Biometric Recognition Systems, vol. 44, no. 5, February 2005., pp. 637-646.

J.T. Thornton, P. Hennings Yeomans, J. Kovačević and B.V.K.V. Kumar, ''Wavelet packet correlation methods in biometrics'', Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, and Signal Proc., Philadelphia, PA, March 2005., pp. II:81-84.

 

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Wavelet packet correlation methods in biometrics