Palmprint Identification Using Kronecker Product of DCT and Walsh Transforms for Multi-Spectral Images

This paper presents a novel technique to identify palmprints of individuals for various purposes including security, access control, forensic applications, identification, etc. Palmprints, known to be more robust as biometrics are being increasingly used in these areas. In this paper the identification of the palmprint of an individual has been done using a transform domain technique where a new transform using the Kronecker product of the existing transforms (DCT and Walsh) is developed and applied to multi-spectral palmprint images. Energy compaction technique in transform domain is applied to reduce the size of feature vector. The properties of both DCT and Walsh transforms are incorporated in the new transform which gives better results than when both the transforms are used individually. The GAR values have been computed for different values of energy considered. The maximum value of GAR obtained is 98.53% for an energy threshold of 99.99% on palmprints under blue illumination. The FAR is found to be 4%.