Wavelet packet correlation methods in biometrics

Jason Thornton, Pablo Hennings, Jelena Kovačević, B. V.K. Vijaya Kumar

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Abstract

We introduce wavelet packet correlation filter classifiers. Correlation filters are traditionally designed in the image domain by minimizing some criterion function of the image training set. Instead we perform classification in wavelet spaces that have training set representations which provide better solutions to the optimization problem in the filter design. We propose a pruning algorithm to find these wavelet spaces using a correlation energy cost function, and we describe a match score fusion algorithm for applying the filters trained across the packet tree. The proposed classification algorithm is suitable for any object recognition task. We present results by implementing a biometric recognition system using the NIST 24 fingerprint database, and show that applying correlation filters in the wavelet domain results in considerable improvement of the standard correlation filter algorithm.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '05 - Proceedings - Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Multimedia Signal Processing
PagesII81-II84
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Event2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '05 - Philadelphia, PA, United States
Duration: Mar 18 2005Mar 23 2005

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
VolumeII
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '05
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhiladelphia, PA
Period3/18/053/23/05

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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