Hand recognition method based on Eigen-hand (principal component analysis)‎ technique

Other Title(s)

طريقة اليد المستندة على تقنية تحليل المركبات الأساسية للأيدي الذاتية

Dissertant

Hamid, Husayn Abd Allah

Thesis advisor

Ali, Salih Mahdi

Comitee Members

al-Zuki, Ali Abd D.
Dakhil, Zahidah Ahmad
Ghazal, Nawal Khalaf

University

University of Baghdad

Faculty

College of Science

Department

Department of Physics

University Country

Iraq

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2011

English Abstract

In this thesis, the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) based method (namely Eigenhand), is used to verify persons from their hand’s image.

Our approach treats the hand recognition and verification problems as an essentially 2D-problem rather than requiring recovery of 3D geometry, taking advantage of the fact that hand’s images can be described by a small set of 2D characteristics features.

The extracted features for the recognition process have been referred to as “Eigen hands” because they represent the eigenvectors of the set of the trained and tested hands.

The verification operation between the trained hand’s images (i.e.

preserved in the Database) and the input “unknown” hand image is performed by utilizing the Minimum-Mean- Distance “MMD” criterion.

The designed system output is either "Verified" or "Unverified".

Several amounts of different noises (e.g.

Gaussian, Salt-and-pepper, Uniform) have been added to the tested hand to measure the reliability of our presented verification system.

Additionally, the effects of image rotation have, also, been studied by rotating the test image few degrees (in clock and anti-clock directions).

Moreover, the scaling effects have also be checked by enlarging the test image several percentage amount, and shifting (directionality left and right) have also been carried out

Main Subjects

Physics

No. of Pages

90

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-606337