An available database for the research of finger vein recognition

Finger vein biometric has received considerable attentions in recent years. However, there is no approved and benchmark finger vein database for researchers to evaluate their algorithms. Furthermore, few public finger vein databases are available online. Aiming to support a benchmark database, in this paper, we introduce a representative finger vein database captured by a portable device, which is named MMCBNU_6000. Our research is novel in four aspects. First, MMCBNU_6000 is established with participation of 100 volunteers, coming from 20 countries. It contains images acquired from different persons with different skin colors. Second, statistical information of the nationality, age, gender, and blood type is recorded for further analysis on finger vein images. Third, similar to the real application, influences from translation, rotation, scale, uneven illumination, scattering, collection posture, finger tissue and finger pressure are taken into account in the imaging process. Fourth, according to the evaluation of average image gray value, image contrast and entropy on the images from the available databases, the acquired images in MMCBNU_6000 have comparable image quality.