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In recent years, the global pandemic has promoted the development of contactless identification. However, the unconstrained finger vein acquisition process will introduce more uneven illumination, finger image deformation, and some other factors that may affect the recognition, so it puts forward higher requirements for the acquisition speed, accuracy and other performance. Considering the universal, obvious, and stable characteristics of the original finger vein imaging, we proposed a new Region Of Interest (ROI) extraction method based on the characteristics of finger vein image, which contains three innovative elements: a horizontal Sobel operator with additional weights; an edge detection method based on finger contour imaging characteristics; a gradient detection operator based on large receptive field. The proposed methods were evaluated and compared with some representative methods by using four different public datasets of finger veins. The experimental results show that, compared with the existing representative methods, our proposed ROI extraction method is 1\/10th of the processing time of the threshold-based methods, and it is similar to the time spent for coarse extraction in the mask-based methods. The ROI extraction results show that the proposed method has better robustness for different quality images. Moreover, the results of recognition matching experiments on different datasets indicate that our method achieves the best Equal Error Rate (EER) of 0.67% without the refinement of feature extraction parameters, and all the EERs are significantly lower than those of the representative methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21134402","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,27]],"date-time":"2021-06-27T23:57:22Z","timestamp":1624838242000},"page":"4402","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["A Novel ROI Extraction Method Based on the Characteristics of the Original Finger Vein Image"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Huimin","family":"Lu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Changchun University of Technology, Changchun 130102, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4742-1657","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yifan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Changchun University of Technology, Changchun 130102, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ruoran","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Changchun University of Technology, Changchun 130102, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chengcheng","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Changchun University of Technology, Changchun 130102, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yang","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Changchun University of Technology, Changchun 130102, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Kono, M. 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