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Sensors 2012, 12, 3627-3640; doi:10.3390/s120303627 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Scattering Removal for Finger-Vein Image Restoration Jinfeng Yang ⋆ , Ben Zhang and Yihua Shi Tianjin Key Lab for Advanced Signal Processing, Civil Aviation University of China, P.O. Box 9, Tianjin 300300, China; E-Mails: comm.benzhang@ (B.Z.); yh-shi@ (Y.S.) ⋆ Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: jfyang@. Received: 7 February 2012; in revised form: 6 March 2012 / Accepted: 6 March 2012 / Published: 15 March 2012 Abstract: Finger-vein recognition has received increased attention recently. However, the finger-vein images are always captured in poor quality. This certainly makes finger-vein feature representation unreliable, and further impairs the accuracy of finger-vein recognition. In this paper, we first give an analysis of the intrinsic factors causing finger-vein image degradation, and then propose a simple but effective image restoration method based on scattering removal. To give a proper description of finger-vein image degradation, a biological optical model (BOM) specific to finger-vein imaging is proposed according to the principle of light propagation in biological tissues. Based on BOM, the light scattering component is sensibly estimated and properly removed for finger-vein image restoration. Finally, experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is powerful in enhancing the finger-vein image contr