Palmprint recognition using eigenpalms features

In this paper, we propose a palmprint recognition method based on eigenspace technology. By means of the Karhunen–Loeve transform, the original palmprint images are transformed into a small set of feature space, called ‘‘eigenpalms’’, which are the eigenvectors of the training set and can represent the principle components of the palmprints quite well. Then, the eigenpalm features are extracted by projecting a new palmprint image into the subspace spanned by the ‘‘eigenpalms’’, and applied to palmprint recognition with a Euclidean distance classifier. Experimental results illustrate the effectiveness of our method in terms of the recognition rate. 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.