An Efficient Approach of Finger Knuckle Print Based Recognition Using Googlenet Model
Vishalakshi Rituraj, Shyam Krishna Singh · International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology · 2022
Abstract: The need of personal recognition and identification became necessary in order to keep intruders away and to allow only the legitimate persons in order to protect privacy and to secure data from being altered. But, with the technological evolution and increasing risk of data theft, it has been a mandatory demand. A persons’s identity is not limited to his/her name, password or PIN but today, their biometrics are being used as an integral part of their identification. The emergence of Deep learning, a subset of Artificial Intelligence, brought a revolution in the field of computer vision and biometric identification. The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models of Deep learning possess a resemblance to the human brain and it brought a revolution in the field of computer vision and biometric identification. I adopted a transfer learning approach by using a pretrained CNN model, GoogleNetfor conducting my experiment. The GoogleNet model automatically does all the image processing operations as well as the extraction of features too. I chose a very unique human biometric trait for this experiment, which is a person’s Finger Knuckleprint (FKP). It bears a complex pattern and unique structures. I requested the knuckleprint samples from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and I used its Contactless Finger Knuckle Images Database (Version 1.0). An excellent result obtained by conducting this experiment. Keyword: Finger Knuckle Print, Convolution, GoogleNet, Feature Extraction, Classifier.