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Hand Geometry Recognition

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Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security

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Hand geometry verification

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Hand geometry recognition is a biometric approach to automatically recognize individuals based on the unique geometric features of the hand.

Background

Hand geometry biometric systems utilize features such as finger length, finger width, finger thickness, finger area, and palm width to perform personal authentication. These systems have gained immense popularity and public acceptance as evident from their extensive deployment for applications in access control, time attendance applications and several other verification tasks. Major advantages of hand geometry systems include simple imaging requirements (features can be extracted from low-resolution hand images), the ability to operate under harsh environmental conditions (immune to dirt on the hand and other external factors), and low data-storage requirements. In addition, hand geometry acquisition and verification is extremely fast. These distinct advantages over other biometrics helped...

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  1. Biometrics Research Centre, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PQ809, Mong Man Wai Building, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    David Zhang Dr.

  2. Biometrics Research Centre, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PQ809, Mong Man Wai Building, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Vivek Kanhangad Professor

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Henk C. A. van Tilborg

  2. Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030-4422, USA

    Sushil Jajodia

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Zhang, D., Kanhangad, V. (2011). Hand Geometry Recognition. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_878

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