A study of contactless finger vein authentication systems for public facilities

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17H02036
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social systems engineering/Safety system
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Suzuki Hiroyuki 東京工業大学, 科学技術創成研究院, 助教 (20397053)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 小室 孝 埼玉大学, 理工学研究科, 教授 (10345118)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 生体認証 / 画像処理 / 撮像システム / パターン認識

Outline of Final Research Achievements

It is well known that biometric information can provide convenient and reliable user authentication. Recently, the application field of biometric authentication is expanding from small-scale service to wide-scale one such as big event venue. In these situations, high-speed calculation and smooth operation are required because of a large number of users. In order to apply finger vein authentication to above services, we propose a hand waving finger vein authentication system, in which a hand-waving movie is captured with a camera, and a biometric feature is obtained by synthesizing some finger vein patterns extracted from the movie. In our study, we developed a prototype system of the hand-waving finger vein authentication and evaluated the verification performance of the proposed system.

Free Research Field

生体認証、光情報処理、情報セキュリティ

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の成果が社会に与える意義としては，これまでの生体認証は，ノートPC等の本人のみが利用する機器の認証，銀行ATM等が利用の中心であったが，本研究で開発する技術が実現すれば，大規模なイベント会場などの不特定多数のユーザーが利用するサービスにおいても生体認証が普及すると考えられ，生体認証の適用分野が大きく拡大することが期待される．さらには，生体情報の安全な管理方法やユーザー規模の問題等の課題を解決できれば，財布やカードなどを持たなくても，買い物や公共交通機関の利用が可能な便利な社会が実現すると期待される．