how to extract the features using SURF ?

whether SURF algorithm is suitable for finger vein feature extraction??????

[Dima Lisin]

More detail about what you are trying to do would help. Especially sample images. Are you trying to identify people by the pattern of their finger veins?

[guru]

I need to extract the finger vein lines .. these line directions are taken as the feature .. and it is used to identify the person.. how to extract the lines in the finger vein image.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

I don't know. Is that what your review of the literature suggests?

http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/contentspeople.html#Face%20Recognition,%20Detection,%20Tracking,%20Gesture%20Recognition,%20Fingerprints,%20Biometrics