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Uncovering vein patterns from color skin images for personal identification in forensic investigation
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Tang, C. N. |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | ii In the second approach, we use principles of optics and skin biophysics for uncovering vein patterns. It inverses the process of skin color formation in an image and derives the corresponding biophysical parameters, where veins can be observed. Based on this approach we develop four optical models for simulating skin color formation. They are all based on the radiative transfer equation which quantitatively describes transport of light in the human skin. The first and second optical models use the Kubelka-Munk (K-M) model to approximate the solution of the radiative transfer equation, whose exact analytical solution has not yet been obtained for complex and multiple scattering media such as human skin. In these two models, we assume that the optical properties of human skin is determined by three layers – the stratum corneum, the epidermis, and the dermis, and veins are located in the dermis. To overcome the limits of the first model, the second optical model uses a color optimization scheme and the automatic intensity adjustment scheme. The third and fourth optical models use Reichman's solution to the radiative transfer equation. In the fourth optical model, we add the fourth layer, the hypodermis consisting of adipose and blood vessels to the skin structure. Because none of the models can provide exact and complete vein patterns, we propose a method to fuse the vein patterns obtained from different models. Experimental evaluations show that the fusion results are much better than any of the single models and also the RGB-NIR mapping approach. Its matching result is even better than matching NIR images. Furthermore, we develop two specific approaches to remove blocking artifacts in JPEGcompressed skin images. The first one is a maximum-a-posteriori (MAP)-based approach which formulates skin image deblocking as an estimation problem, and embeds statistical information of skin images into a MAP model to perform the estimation. The second one is a knowledge-based approach which extracts prior knowledge of skin images from a training set, and uses it to infer original blocks in compressed evidence images. Two inference schemes, a block synthesis algorithm and an indexing mechanism are also proposed for this approach. Both approaches guarantee that the resultant and compressed images have the same quantized DCT coefficients. Experimental results demonstrate that the approaches perform better than other methods. In this research, we break the limit of traditional vein recognition and show its potential for forensic analysis. According to our best knowledge, no one did similar research before. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.32657/10356/51059 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://repository.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/handle/10356/51059/TsceG0802400F.pdf;jsessionid=5AB9D1DC395BEC38CAB0B57260D091A6?sequence=1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.32657/10356%2F51059 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
