Abstract
Finger vein pattern has been proven to be an effective biometric for personal identification in recent years. Nevertheless, there remain challenges that need to be solved, such as finger-vein features that lack robustness and expressiveness. In this paper, we propose a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model, named the Finger-vein Network (FV-Net), to learn the features representative of a finger vein that is more discriminative and robust than handcrafted features. Next, to address the issue of translation and rotation in vein imaging, we propose a template-like matching strategy while designing the top architecture of the FV-net to extract features with spatial information. Finally, the extensive experimental results show that our proposed method can achieve excellent performance on several public datasets.