ABSTRACT
Hands are in the most primal sense what mankind uses to create;
therefore, it is logical that for thousands of years man has used hand
imprints or outlines to show what he has created and where he
has been [1]. Even today, movie stars stamp their hand prints in
the Hollywood Walk of Fame to honor their achievement. It is no
surprise that the hand has become an anatomical feature used to
identify a person. There are several characteristic of the hand that
can be used as biometrics: fingerprints [2], veins in the palm [1, 3, 4],
hand geometry [1, 2, 5], and palm recognition. This chapter is going
to focus on palm recognition, but the other subjects will come up
again when multimodal biometrics is discussed.
