Palmprint Classification with Multiple Filter Faces, Fourier Features and Voting Technique

In this paper, we propose a novel method for palmprint classification. We extract the central region from the palmprint image, calculate eight filter faces (FF) from the region based on eight pairs of filters, compute the Fourier features from each FF, classify each of them to one known class, and then perform majority voting to determine the final class label of the unknown palmprint image. By examining the structures of the selected filters, we can see that our new method can supress random noise and at the same time it can extract directional features from the palmprint images. This is the main reason why FF-based methods are better than non-FF-based methods for palmprint classification. In addition, the majority winning policy (voting) based on eight FFs improves classification accuracies significantly. Experimental results demonstrate that our new method outperforms several existing methods for palmprint classification.