PALM RECOGNITION AND SECURITY

Investigations conducted in the field of biometric research have shown that palm possesses personal identification characteristics. In the first place these characteristics include length and weight of fingers as well as palm weight. Palm recognition is a non-intrusive biometric technique and verification process and result description are very simple. Due to the fact that some palm characteristics of a person are not very descriptive, a special task is to combine non-spotted individual characteristic in order to provide a strong identification trail. Depending on data needed for identification process, palm recognition techniques can be divided in next categories: application technology on palm ; excluding vein pattern on palm and geometry analyses of fingers. This paper will put accent on the palm recognition biometric technique used for security applications.