Infrared imaging of hand vein patterns for biometric purposes

IET Computer Vision

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 113-122

  Wang, L ^a   Leedham, G ^a   Cho, S Y ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BIOMETRICS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

PATTERN BIOMETRICS; SKIN FEATURES;

THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

EID: 37249045521     PISSN: 17519632     EISSN: 17519640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cvi:20070009     Document Type: Article

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