Fingers & Knuckles
Doigts & Articulations
This pages gathers several biometric methods related to the finger, but fingerprints & finger geometry :
Knuckle creases
Articulations
- Knuckle crease patterns and stray marks as a means of photographic identification (web page no more available) Richard W. Vorder Bruegge and David B. Davies, FBI Laboratory, Special Photographic Unit, Washington, D.C. USA
- Jungbluth, William O., Knuckle print identification, Journal of Forensic Identification, 39 (6), 1988, 375-380. (no website)
- US patent 5,594,806 (Colbert, 1994) "Knuckle profile indentity verification system"
Finger wrinkles
Plis du doigt
- At the CTST '98, Toshiba + TEC demonstrated a system that measures finger wrinkles. The system uses electrostatic capacitance to measure wrinkles behind the two joints f a finger (no website).
3D Finger surface
Topographie de la surface du doigt
Uses the curvature of each small section of the finger surface, starting from a normal image.
Utilise la courbure de la surface du doigt en chaque point, à partir d'une photo normale.
- (2004) University of Notre Dame / Computer Vision Research Laboratory: search for Damon Woodard, 3D Finger recognition.
- (2005) Personal identification utilizing finger surface features Woodwards & als
- A multi-matcher system based on knuckle-based features Loris Nanni and Alessandra Lumini
Finger-Knuckle-Print
Empreinte articulaire du doigt
Several groups are working on identification using finger knuckle prints :
- (2009) Indian Institute of Technology Delhi: Personal identification using finger knuckles Ajay Kumar
- (2009) Hong-Kong Polytechnic University: A Novel Personal Authentication System Using Finger-Knuckle-Print by Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang and David Zhang
- (2019) Indian Institute of Technology Delhi + National Institute of Technology Silchar: Biometric Authentication through Unification of Finger Dorsal Biometric Traits by Surabhi Hom Choudhury, Amioy Kumar, Shahedul Haque Laskar
An automated extraction of finger knuckles for identification (Kumar)
The acquisition device used by Zhang & al.
Example of a finger knuckle print from Zhang & al.