WO1994022370A1 - Biometric identification of individuals - Google Patents
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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- A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
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- A61B5/117—Identification of persons
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- Biometric identification of Individuals This invention relates to the biometric identification of individuals and, in particular, to methods and apparatus for detecting the locations of subcutaneous blood vessels and for encoding such locations for storage on identity cards. It finds particular application in the verification of identity in transactions involving such cards.
- vein pattern is deemed to include the pattern of arteries, capillaries and other blood vessels.
- British Patent No. 2156127 there is described a method and apparatus for the identification of individuals by means of subcutaneous patterns of blood vessels.
- One difficulty encountered with such apparatus is the poor signal-to-noise ratio when endeavouring to detect blood vessel locations, for example, in the back of the hand. This may be due to hairs, or the non-planar nature of the locations or uneven illumination.
- a method of verifying the identity of an individual comprising the steps of capturing an image of the subcutaneous vein pattern at a predetermined region of the individual, converting said captured image to a plurality of stored values representative of the intensity of said image at specified relative locations, processing said stored values to produce a second plurality of stored values representative of an image of said vein pattern having enhanced contrast and subjecting said second plurality of stored values to a thresholding process to select those above a predetermined value and storing a set of measurements derived from the selected ones of said second plurality of stored values for comparison with a corresponding set of measurements made on said individual.
- Figure 1 is a perspective view of apparatus suitable for scanning vein patterns
- Figure 2 is a block diagram of apparatus in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention
- Figure 3 shows a raw vein pattern obtained from the apparatus of Figure 2
- Figure 4 shows the image of Figure 3 after processing to enhance its contrast
- Figure 5 shows the image of Figure 4 after processing to reveal boundary lines
- Figure 6 shows a pattern of vectors imposed on the image of Figure 5;
- Figure 7 shows two superimposed vein patterns;
- Figure 8 shows the vein patterns after alignment;
- Figure 9 shows the matched portions of the two superimposed patterns;
- Figure 10 shows the mismatched portions of the vein patterns.
- a hand 1 of an individual whose identity is to be verified is positioned approximately by gripping a positional reference handle 3.
- a video camera 15 is positioned directly above the hand position and produces a raster-scan image of the back of the hand.
- a band-pass filter 17 extracts an infra-red image and reduces the proportion of visible radiation. It therefore enhances the visibility of the subcutaneous vein pattern. By viewing the vein pattern through a pair of filters having different transmission characteristics, it is possible to differentiate between veins and arteries, which have different relative contents of oxy-haemoglobin and carboxy-haemoglobin.
- the two images may be obtained sequentially by substituting one filter for the other or simultaneously by means of a split image with one filter in each field of view.
- the output of the video camera 100 is
- the raw image from the video camera suffers from poor contrast and also from the effects of varying brightness across its width, due to the curved nature of the back of the hand.
- the amplitude of each pixel is weighted to enhance the local contrast.
- the contrast can be improved by employing a local contrast enhancement function, making use of the values at sampling points in the neighbourhood of each point in the plane.
- a local contrast enhancement function making use of the values at sampling points in the neighbourhood of each point in the plane.
- the 15 function is a compromise between performance and speed.
- the particular function chosen in the preferred embodiment is a single-dimensional one employing six points 1n a line transverse to the axis of the hand.
- the amplitude at a particular point 1s derived from the sum of the amplitudes of the two
- the black and white image is also preferably subjected to an area thresholding process to remove small white artifacts in the black regions and small black objects in the white regions.
- Figure 4) - A We have found that, in practice, there is sufficient information content in the longitudinal blood vessels to permit adequate identification to be performed and that the attenuated image of the transverse blood vessels is not disadvantageous. On the other hand, this step reduces the demands placed on the data handling and storage requirements of the system.
- the cleaned-up black and white image of the blood vessel is then converted in a further signal processor 104 to a series of vectors, which are a series of small straight lines approximating to the centre line of each blood vessel.
- These vectors may be used for various purposes (a) to measure misalignment of one image relative to another, both rotational ly and longitudinal and lateral displacement (b) to obtain a score for the probability that the two compared images are of the same blood vessel pattern and (c) to provide compressed data description of a vein pattern which can be used as a reference template. They are stored in an output device 105.
- the transverse resolution of the video camera is five hundred and twelve pixels, of which about two thirds occur in the width of the hand - there is a gap at either side - equivalent to about four hundred pixels across the hand. Longitudinally, it is 128 lines.
- the width of a vein is typically about two millimetres.
- An objective of the signal processing is to improve the signal-to-noise ratio so that spurious results will not, for example be caused by hairs on the back of the hand.
- a variety of methods may be used for measuring the similarity of two vein patterns.
- the first method involves measuring the area of patterns which coincide (performing a logical AND on the two vein patterns). ( Figure 9) this is divided by the area of the non-coinciding part of the patterns (Logical XOR) ( Figure 9) Typical results for a pair of well aligned pair of patterns taken from the same hand at different times is 1.5, whilst the best an imposter can achieve is about 0.25.
- a second method involves measuring the total length of vein centre-line which falls within a pre-determined tolerance of the centre-line of the other image.
- a score can be calculated by counting the number of vector ends (or vector centres) which fall within (or close to) the outline of the test pattern. The ratio of these two values will give a score similar to that of method 1.
- Method 4 involves using a compressed template and the centre-lines of a test pattern.
- the test is set by the length of centreline which falls within a predetermined tolerance of the vectors of the template.
- a fifth method uses two sets of vectors and integrates the misalignment of the vector ends of one pattern and the vectors of the other pattern.
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