Thermal Imaging as a Biometrics Approach to Facial Signature Authentication

Abstract—A new thermal imaging framework with unique featureextractionandsimilaritymeasurementsforfacerecognitionis presented.Theresearchpremiseistodesignspecializedalgorithms thatwouldextractvasculatureinformation,createathermalfacial signature, and identify the individual. The proposed algorithm is fullyintegratedandconsolidatesthecriticalstepsoffeatureextractionthroughtheuseofmorphological…