Abstract
Palmprints can be characterized by their texture and the patterns of that texture dominate in a vertical direction. Therefore, the energy of the coefficients in the transform domain is more concentrated in the vertical sideband. Using this idea, this paper proposes the characterization of the texture features of the palmprint using zero-crossing signatures based on the dyadic discrete wavelet transform (DWT) to effectively identify an individual. A zero-crossing signature of 4 x 256 was generated from the lower four resolution levels of dyadic DWT in the enrolment process and stored in the database to identify the person in recognition mode. Euclidean distance was determined to find the best fit for query palmprints zero-crossing signature from the dataset. The proposed algorithm was tested on the PolyU dataset containing 6000 multi-spectral images. The proposed algorithm achieved 96.27% accuracy with a lower recognition time of 0.76 seconds.