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A New Method in Locating and Segmenting Palmprint into Region-of-Interest C. Poon, D.C.M. Wong, H.C. Shen Dept. of Computer Science The Hong Kong University of Science Technology Hong Kong {helens@cs.ust.hk} Abstract Various techniques in analyzing palmprint have been proposed but to the best of our knowledge, none has been studied on the selection and division of the region-ofinterest (ROI). Previous methods were always applied only to a fixed size square region chosen as the central part of the palm, which were then divided into square blocks for extraction of local features. In this paper, we proposed a new method in locating and segmenting the ROI for palmprint analysis, where the selected region varies with the size of the palm. Instead of square blocks,the region is divided into sectors of elliptical half-rings, which are less affected by misalignment due to rotational error. More importantly, our arrangement of the feature vectors ensures that only features extracted from the same spatial region of two aligned palms will be compared with each other. Encouraging results obtained favor the use of this method in the future development of palmprint analysis techniques. 1. Introduction Biometrics, identification of a person by his/her physiological or behavioral characteristics, has become increasingly prevalent in modern identification and verification systems [1][2]. Of all the biometrics studied, palmprint has an advantage over other biometrics such as voice and face recognition where uniqueness between people is doubtful [3] or fingerprint and iris pattern where high-resolution images are required (e.g. over 400 dpi). Palmprints are unique between people and relatively lowresolution images will suffice (less than 100 dpi) [4][5]. However, there is a major shortfall in the previous algorithms. That is they only utilize a fixed area of a palm for identification regardless of the actual palm size. Obviously, a lot of information has been overlooked. Two palms ar