Keypoint Description by Symmetry Assessment -- Applications in Biometrics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01651v1
• Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2023 00:49:25 GMT
• Title: Keypoint Description by Symmetry Assessment -- Applications in Biometrics
• Authors: Anna Mikaelyan, Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Josef Bigun
• Abstract summary: We present a model-based feature extractor to describe neighborhoods around keypoints by finite expansion. The iso-curves of such functions are highly symmetric w.r.t. the origin (a keypoint) and the estimated parameters have well defined geometric interpretations.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We present a model-based feature extractor to describe neighborhoods around keypoints by finite expansion, estimating the spatially varying orientation by harmonic functions. The iso-curves of such functions are highly symmetric w.r.t. the origin (a keypoint) and the estimated parameters have well defined geometric interpretations. The origin is also a unique singularity of all harmonic functions, helping to determine the location of a keypoint precisely, whereas the functions describe the object shape of the neighborhood. This is novel and complementary to traditional texture features which describe texture-shape properties i.e. they are purposively invariant to translation (within a texture). We report on experiments of verification and identification of keypoints in forensic fingerprints by using publicly available data (NIST SD27) and discuss the results in comparison to other studies. These support our conclusions that the novel features can equip single cores or single minutia with a significant verification power at 19% EER, and an identification power of 24-78% for ranks of 1-20. Additionally, we report verification results of periocular biometrics using near-infrared images, reaching an EER performance of 13%, which is comparable to the state of the art. More importantly, fusion of two systems, our and texture features (Gabor), result in a measurable performance improvement. We report reduction of the EER to 9%, supporting the view that the novel features capture relevant visual information, which traditional texture features do not.

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