Finger Vein Minutiae Points Extraction based on Maximum Curvature Points in Image Profile and Finger Print Application Methods

Biometric finger vein has been widely used for authentication as one of its advantages is
resistance to criminal tempering whereby it is located underneath skin. Currently there are many
methods proposed to extract the pattern of finger vein. In this paper, we extend one of the current
methods by combining it with conventional method used in fingerprint for minutiae extraction to
extract the minutiae points of finger vein. The minutiae points will be used for the authentication
system that needs only points to be stored in its database. Experimentation has been conducted to
monitor each of steps until the minutiae points were extracted. On the other hands, the trial also using
different values of distance to evaluate which distance could produce acceptable results to be selected
as good minutiae points