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Hand-Geometry Device

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Synonyms

Hand-geometry reader; Hand-geometry scanner; Hand-scanning device

Definition

Hand-geometry devices are specially designed biometric devices used for capturing the geometric characteristics (e.g., the length, width, thickness and curvature of the fingers, the palm size, and the distances between joints) of a human hand for hand-geometry-based identity verification. A typical hand-geometry device records images of the lateral and dorsal parts of the hand using a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera that is mounted above a flat surface on which the person presented to the device places his/her hand. The set of geometrical features extracted from these images is then matched against a prerecorded template stored in the device’s database. Depending on the result of this matching procedure, the identity of the person presented to the device is either verified or not.

Introduction

Hand-geometry devices are among the earliest commercially available biometric devices for automated...

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Tržaška 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Vitomir Štruc & Nikola Pavešić

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  1. Vitomir Štruc
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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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Štruc, V., Pavešić, N. (2009). Hand-Geometry Device. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_14

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