Binary gabor statistical features for palmprint template protection

The biometric template protection system requires a highquality biometric channel and a well-designed error correction code (ECC). Due to the intra-class variations of biometric data, an efficient fixed-length binary feature extractor is required to provide a high-quality biometric channel so that the system is robust and accurate, and to allow a secret key to be combined for security. In this paper we present a binary palmprint feature extraction method to achieve a robust biometric channel for template protection system. The real-valued texture statistical features are firstly extracted based on Gabor magnitude and phase responses. Then a bits quantization and selection algorithm is introduced. Experimental results on the HongKong PloyU Palmprint database verify the efficiency of our method which achieves low verification error rate by a robust palmprint binary representation of low bit error rate

Coding of details in very low bit-rate video systems

In this paper, the importance of including small image features at the initial levels of a progressive second generation video coding scheme is presented. It is shown that a number of meaningful small features called details should be coded, even at very low data bit-rates, in order to match their perceptual significance to the human visual system. We propose a method for extracting, perceptually selecting and coding of visual details in a video sequence using morphological techniques. Its application in the framework of a multiresolution segmentation-based coding algorithm yields better results than pure segmentation techniques at higher compression ratios, if the selection step fits some main subjective requirements. Details are extracted and coded separately from the region structure and included in the reconstructed images in a later stage. The bet of considering the local background of a given detail for its perceptual selection breaks the concept ofPeer ReviewedPostprint (published version