Synonyms
Palm vein authentication; Palm vein recognition
Definition
Palm vein authentication is a biometric modality primarily used for biometric authentication. It is classified as a physiological biometric authentication. It uses palm vein patterns, a vascular image of a person’s palm as the biometric feature. As palm vein patterns exist beneath the human skin, stealing someone’s palm vein pattern is very hard. As a result, palm vein forgery is believed to be very difficult than other modalities.
In 1985, Joseph Rice filed a patent for hand vein authentication in the United States. The first palm vein authentication device was released by Advanced Biometrics, Inc. in the United States in 1997. In 2003, a notable contactless palm vein authentication device was released by Fujitsu in Japan.
The palm vein patterns are normally captured using near-infrared illumination via either the reflection method or the transmission method. In the reflection method, near-infrared rays are emitted to...
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Aoki, T., Shinzaki, T. (2015). Palm Vein. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_129
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