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arxiv: 2604.09989 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-11 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

FlowPalm: Optical Flow Driven Non-Rigid Deformation for Geometrically Diverse Palmprint Generation

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keywords palmprint generationoptical flownon-rigid deformationdiffusion modelsynthetic biometric datageometric variationpalmprint recognition
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The pith

FlowPalm estimates optical flows between real palmprint pairs and applies them progressively in diffusion to generate geometrically diverse synthetic palmprints that improve recognition accuracy.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper seeks to create synthetic palmprints that include realistic non-rigid geometric changes in addition to style variations. Current generation techniques rely on basic handcrafted changes for geometry, which limits their usefulness for training recognition models. FlowPalm extracts deformation patterns from optical flows computed on actual palmprint pairs and incorporates those patterns through a controlled progressive sampling step inside a diffusion process. The resulting images preserve identity while adding the complex deformations seen in real palms. Experiments across six datasets show that models trained on these images outperform those trained on data from prior generation methods.

Core claim

FlowPalm estimates optical flows between pairs of real palmprints to capture statistical patterns of geometric deformations, then uses a progressive sampling schedule during diffusion that gradually applies these deformations while preserving identity consistency, producing synthetic palmprints that reflect both style and complex non-rigid variation.

What carries the argument

Optical-flow-driven progressive sampling process that injects real deformation statistics into diffusion generation.

If this is right

  • Synthetic palmprint datasets can replace larger collections of real images for training recognition systems.
  • Recognition models gain robustness to pose and deformation changes that simple augmentations miss.
  • Generation frameworks can now target both texture and shape variation in a single pipeline.
  • Downstream tasks on the six tested benchmarks achieve higher accuracy when using FlowPalm data.
  • The method reduces the need to collect additional real palmprints under varied conditions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same optical-flow prior could be adapted to generate training data for other non-rigid biometric traits such as fingerprints or faces under expression changes.
  • By producing identity-consistent yet geometrically varied samples, the approach supports privacy-preserving dataset creation without exposing additional real images.
  • Extending the progressive sampling to video sequences of palms might allow synthesis of dynamic deformation sequences for video-based recognition.

Load-bearing premise

Optical flows computed between existing real palmprint pairs already contain the full range of geometric deformations that occur in real palms and can be introduced without breaking identity.

What would settle it

Train a recognition model on FlowPalm-generated images and test it on a dataset containing palmprints with geometric deformations outside the range of the training pairs; if accuracy does not exceed the baseline using only simple augmentations, the claim is falsified.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.09989 by Dexing Zhong, Huikai Shao, Lihuang Fang, Yuchen Zou, Zhipeng Xiong.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the proposed method and its performance [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the deformation prior construction. Defor [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Statistical distribution and visualization of deformation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Overview of the proposed deformation-driven three-stage generation strategy. A deformation field sampled from the deformation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Visualization of the intermediate results of our [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Visualization of the effects of crease and noise warping. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Recently, synthetic palmprints have been increasingly used as substitutes for real data to train recognition models. To be effective, such synthetic data must reflect the diversity of real palmprints, including both style variation and geometric variation. However, existing palmprint generation methods mainly focus on style translation, while geometric variation is either ignored or approximated by simple handcrafted augmentations. In this work, we propose FlowPalm, an optical-flow-driven palmprint generation framework capable of simulating the complex non-rigid deformations observed in real palms. Specifically, FlowPalm estimates optical flows between real palmprint pairs to capture the statistical patterns of geometric deformations. Building on these priors, we design a progressive sampling process that gradually introduces the geometric deformations during diffusion while maintaining identity consistency. Extensive experiments on six benchmark datasets demonstrate that FlowPalm significantly outperforms state-of-the-art palmprint generation approaches in downstream recognition tasks. Project page: https://yuchenzou.github.io/FlowPalm/

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript presents FlowPalm, a framework for generating synthetic palmprints that incorporates non-rigid geometric deformations using optical flow estimated from real palmprint pairs. It employs a progressive sampling process in a diffusion model to introduce these deformations while aiming to maintain identity consistency. The authors claim that this approach leads to superior performance in downstream palmprint recognition tasks compared to state-of-the-art methods across six benchmark datasets.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work addresses an important gap in synthetic biometric data generation by providing a data-driven mechanism for geometric variation beyond style transfer or simple augmentations. This could improve the diversity and utility of synthetic palmprints for training recognition models, with the optical-flow prior offering a principled way to capture real deformation statistics.

major comments (2)
  1. [Method description (progressive sampling)] The progressive sampling process is described as maintaining identity consistency while introducing deformations, but the method provides no explicit identity-preservation loss, no embedding-distance monitoring across diffusion steps, and no verification metrics (e.g., EER or cosine similarity) between source and generated palms. This is load-bearing for the claim that downstream recognition gains arise from modeled non-rigid deformations rather than style variation or artifacts.
  2. [Experiments and results] The abstract asserts outperformance on six benchmark datasets, yet the provided details lack quantitative tables, ablation studies isolating the optical-flow component, baseline implementation specifics, or error analysis. Without these, the support for the central claim of significant improvement cannot be verified.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Ensure the full manuscript includes self-contained experimental details rather than relying on the project page for reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. The comments highlight important areas for clarification and expansion, which we address point by point below. We will revise the manuscript accordingly to strengthen the presentation of our method and results.

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  1. Referee: [Method description (progressive sampling)] The progressive sampling process is described as maintaining identity consistency while introducing deformations, but the method provides no explicit identity-preservation loss, no embedding-distance monitoring across diffusion steps, and no verification metrics (e.g., EER or cosine similarity) between source and generated palms. This is load-bearing for the claim that downstream recognition gains arise from modeled non-rigid deformations rather than style variation or artifacts.

    Authors: We agree that the current manuscript does not include an explicit identity-preservation loss term or direct monitoring of embedding distances across diffusion steps. Identity consistency is instead maintained implicitly by conditioning the diffusion model on the source palmprint and using a progressive sampling schedule that applies optical flow deformations gradually. This design choice was intended to avoid over-constraining the generation while leveraging the diffusion prior. To address the concern directly, we will add verification metrics in the revised version, including cosine similarity between source and generated palm embeddings as well as EER computed on identity preservation across generated samples. These additions will provide explicit evidence that performance improvements derive from the modeled non-rigid deformations. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments and results] The abstract asserts outperformance on six benchmark datasets, yet the provided details lack quantitative tables, ablation studies isolating the optical-flow component, baseline implementation specifics, or error analysis. Without these, the support for the central claim of significant improvement cannot be verified.

    Authors: The manuscript reports results across six benchmark datasets with comparisons to state-of-the-art methods, but we acknowledge that the current presentation would benefit from greater detail. In the revision we will expand the experiments section to include complete quantitative tables, dedicated ablation studies that isolate the optical-flow prior (e.g., performance with and without the flow-driven deformation component), explicit baseline implementation details (hyperparameters, training protocols), and error analysis covering variance across datasets and representative failure cases. These additions will make the empirical support fully verifiable. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The described method estimates optical flows directly from real palmprint pairs as input priors and incorporates them into a diffusion-based progressive sampling process. This constitutes a standard data-driven generative pipeline with no equations or claims that reduce to self-definitions, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations. Identity consistency is asserted as a design goal of the sampling process rather than derived tautologically from prior results. Downstream benchmark evaluations provide independent assessment of the output.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Review limited to abstract; no explicit free parameters, invented entities, or additional axioms are stated beyond the core domain assumption that optical flow captures deformation statistics.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Optical flows between real palmprint pairs capture the statistical patterns of geometric deformations
    This is the load-bearing premise invoked to justify the progressive sampling process.

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