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Hand Geometry

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Synonyms

Hand biometrics; Hand shape biometrics

Definition

Biometric modality based on identifying a person by the shape of his or her hand. In its basic form, it is based on taking a photograph of the user’s hand while placed on a surface, and after a contour detection, finding singular points and taking measurements among them.

Introduction

Hand Geometry is considered as a medium-profile biometric modality which reaches a really high level of user acceptance with low computational cost. Not being one of the first biometric modalities, it has gained great popularity due to the success of some commercial products, at the end of the twentieth century. In fact, the commercial product from Schlage Recognition Systems, known as HandKey II [1], was one of the most sold at the beginning of the 2000s, especially for physical access control systems and time and attendance control.

As mentioned below, after some initial works, other scientists have continued researching on other algorithms and...

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  1. University Carlos III of Madrid, Avda. Universidad, Madrid, Spain

    Raul Sanchez-Reillo

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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Departments of Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Anil Jain (Professor) (Professor)

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Sanchez-Reillo, R. (2009). Hand Geometry. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_251

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