Footprint Recognition using Modified Sequential Haar Energy Transform (MSHET)

Footprint identification is the measurement of footprint features for recognizing the identity of a user. Footprint is universal, easy to capture and does not change much across time. Footprint biometric system does not require specialized acquisition devices. Footprint image of a left leg is captured for hundred people in different angles. No special lighting is used in this setup. The foot image is positioned and cropped according to the key points. Sequential modified Haar transform is applied to the resized footprint image to obtain Modified Haar Energy (MHE) feature. The sequential modified Haar wavelet can map integer-valued signals onto integer-valued signals abandoning the property of perfect reconstruction. The MHE feature is compared with the feature vectors stored in database using Euclidean Distance. The accuracy of the MHE feature and Haar energy feature under different decomposition levels and combinations are compared. Above 92.375% percent accuracy can be achieved using proposed MHE feature.