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Hand Databases and Evaluation

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Hand geometry; Hand vein; Palmprint database; Palm vein

Introduction

The human hand is the source of a number of unique physiological characteristics. The main technologies for hand recognition fall into three categories: palmprint technologies, those measuring the unique pattern of prints from the palm of the hand, similar to a fingerprint; hand geometry measurements, those measuring the shape and size of either all or part of the human hand or fingers; and hand vein patterns, those measuring the distinct vascular patterns of the human hand, including hand dorsum vein and palm vein.

Palmprint: A palmprint is defined as the skin patterns of a palm, composed of the physical characteristics of the skin patterns such as lines, points, and texture. Palmprints are covered with the same type of skin as a finger, but their surface area is much larger than a fingertip [1]. Automatic palmprint identification systems can be classified into two categories: online and offline. An online...

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  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China

    Guangming Lu

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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security, Research & National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li

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

    Anil K. Jain

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Lu, G. (2015). Hand Databases and Evaluation. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_258

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