GenVeins: an artificially generated hand vein database Online publication date: Thu, 03-Oct-2024
by Emile Beukes; Johannes Coetzer
International Journal of Biometrics (IJBM), Vol. 16, No. 6, 2024
Abstract: An artificially generated dorsal hand vein database called 'GenVeins' (see Beukes, 2023) is developed in this study for the purpose of acquiring sets of fictitious training and validation individuals which are large enough to represent the entire population. The development of said database is motivated by experimental results, which indicate that system proficiency is severely impaired when training on an insufficient number of different individuals. A number of dorsal hand vein-based authentication systems are proposed in this study for the purpose of determining whether or not the utilisation of the GenVeins database may increase system proficiency when compared to training and validating the proposed systems on small sets of different individuals. The results clearly indicate that the utilisation of the GenVeins database significantly increases system proficiency when compared to the scenario in which an insufficient number of different individuals are utilised for training and validation.
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