An extensive survey on finger and palm vein recognition system

Abstract

The evolution of the internet drastically increases the utilization of online data, which needs security using unique identification. The traditional methods of security, such as password, personal identification number (PIN), could not reach the user-friendly requirement of the users. There is a necessity to provide high security for the data by using a unique identification system. Today, in many situations, biometrics plays a crucial role in today’s authentication and recognition. Biometrics deals with unique physical and behavioral characteristics. Fingerprint, face recognition, iris/retinal recognition, voice recognition and vein recognition are some of the biometrics which is used for authentication purpose. In this paper, we highlight different processes that involve finger veins and palm veins recognition and authentication. These finger and palm vein is identified as one of the important unique identifications that can be used for the authentication which provide the security for the important personal data. In this study, we noticed that the advantage of using a vein for the authentication process is that it provides high security because it can be detected even when a finger or palm got injured, and it works only when the person is alive otherwise the authentication fails.