...[C]ontactless palm vein recognition technology is nothing new and was first demonstrated back in 2002 and is widely used. It works by extracting feature data from biometric data. With previous technologies, confidential data was encrypted with this feature data, but when decrypting, the feature data extracted from biometric data would usually be matched with the encrypted data. This does not present a problem when used in a personal device, such as a laptop or smartphone, but when used via an open network such as in the cloud, a more secure decryption technology is necessary to prevent leaks of biometric data.The article discusses encryption within biometric templates using Fujitsu's palm vein technology, but the idea would seem to be applicable across biometric modalities.
Showing posts with label palm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label palm. Show all posts
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Biometrics + Cryptography
Keeping your passwords safely in the palm of your hand (electropages)
Friday, October 10, 2014
Hungary: Some fans bristle at stadium palm vein scanners
Soccer-Ferencvaros fans upset by biometric 'intrusion' (Yahoo!)
Szebasztian Huber, editor of the Fradi fan website ulloi129.hu said many fans also fear that technological developments would help clubs pass Hungarian Football Association fines -- which they regard as too strict -- on to them.
Stricter stadium rules also puzzle fans because the number of violent incidents in and around Hungarian stadiums is much lower than 10 or 20 years ago, he added.
"The culture of soccer fans is different everywhere, in some countries (vein scanners) would be tolerated, while elsewhere fans could be upset," Huber said. "Launching the system highlighting its comfort functions could increase tolerance."
Monday, April 29, 2013
A look at biometrics and health care fraud
Iris Scans Seen Shrinking $7 Billion Medical Data Breach (Bloomberg)
Iris scanners aren’t just for airport border-control agents and spy movies anymore.There's not an identity management problem hospitals don't have.
Clinics and hospitals around the world are acquiring technology that identifies people based on physical traits to improve patient safety and stamp out fraud. HCA Holdings Inc. (HCA) hospitals in London, as well as health-care providers across the U.S., are buying so-called biometric technologies.
Friday, April 12, 2013
It's pretty small...
World's smallest, slimmest and lightest contact-free vein sensor (PhysOrg)
It's surprisingly small (6 mm thick) so it's about the size of a stack of 4 US quarter-dollar coins. Click over there and see. There are a couple of good pictures.
Hygiene factors helping to boost the touch-less sensing industry goes a ways toward describing the niche Fujitsu's vascular technologies target.
Hygiene factors helping to boost the touch-less sensing industry goes a ways toward describing the niche Fujitsu's vascular technologies target.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Market forecasts for Face, Hand Geometry modalities
Facial biometrics sector to total $2.9 billion by 2018 (Companies and Markets)
Hand geometry industry to be worth $152 million by 2018 (Companies and Markets)
The facial biometrics market has been forecast to reach a total value of US$2.9 billion by 2018, primarily driven by growing security concerns against the backdrop of increasing terrorist attacks, racial and ethnic disturbances, campus violence, random shootouts, riots, burglary, and physical assaults.
Hand geometry industry to be worth $152 million by 2018 (Companies and Markets)
The hand geometry industry has been forecast to achieve a market value of US$151.5 million by 2018, primarily driven by the well established use of the technology in physical access control, time and attendance, point-of-scale, and interactive kiosks.More at the links.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
South Florida: Baptist Health hospitals adopt biometrics for patient ID
New hand scanners being used in local hospital to identify patients (First Coast News)
You used to have to give your name, a form of ID, often a social security number when you checked into hospitals, but now all you may need is your palm.This one happens t be about patient ID, but it's hard to think of an identity management challenge hospitals don't have.
Baptist Health is using new technology now that identifies each patient by the vein pattern in their hand. The technology is called the Palm Vein Biometric Identification System.
The computer stores the patient's vein pattern as a binary number connected to your file, so anywhere you go within the Baptist Health system, you can be identified and your records pulled up by simply scanning your hand.
The Director of Information Services, Jim Bilsky, says the motives behind this new technology is to stop identity theft and ID Card sharing. Also to help identify patients that are brought in unconscious during emergency situations.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Mobile Handset Camera for Palm ID?
KDDI palm authentication app (Ubergizmo)
This is the first time I've seen a palm biometric that uses a photo of a hand as the input.
Though the claims advanced in this very short article aren't completely coherent (i.e. why can you use the flash for taking a picture of a hand but not a face?), the approach is interesting, especially within the context of mobile ID. Perhaps the greatest hurdle to mobile biometrics has been a mobile hardware chicken-and-egg problem.
So far, speculation about Apple's future plans notwithstanding, and the short-lived Motorola Atrix, mobile handset manufacturers haven't been willing to drive up handset costs by adding biometric sensor hardware to a device when there aren't any applications that use it. Application developers won't develop applications that can't be deployed.
Barring a reversal where handset manufacturers add hardware to the devices, the only way out for biometric application developers is to use hardware that is already standard issue on mobile platforms. Besides using the touch-screen for some sort of behavioral biometric application, that means using the phone's microphone for voice and camera for face, and now, perhaps, palm-based biometrics.
I don't have an opinion about the viability of palm pattern recognition using cell phone cameras either from the algorithm side or the sensor side, but it is definitely interesting that people are trying to stretch mobile cameras into new applications.
UPDATE:
When I mentioned "using the touch-screen for some sort of behavioral biometric application," this is what I meant: Your finger swipe could become your password.
Seeing the app in action, it's very impressive.
Well, KDDI might be on to something here with their palm authentication app which runs on smartphones, which is an alternative to facial recognition software and most probably more secure than a fingerprint reader. What makes it even better is this – since it comes with a flash built in, you need not worry about using it in the dark, which is a different case for the face unlock.Most palm biometrics (for ID management as opposed to forensic applications) use the vascular network of the hand.
This is the first time I've seen a palm biometric that uses a photo of a hand as the input.
Though the claims advanced in this very short article aren't completely coherent (i.e. why can you use the flash for taking a picture of a hand but not a face?), the approach is interesting, especially within the context of mobile ID. Perhaps the greatest hurdle to mobile biometrics has been a mobile hardware chicken-and-egg problem.
So far, speculation about Apple's future plans notwithstanding, and the short-lived Motorola Atrix, mobile handset manufacturers haven't been willing to drive up handset costs by adding biometric sensor hardware to a device when there aren't any applications that use it. Application developers won't develop applications that can't be deployed.
Barring a reversal where handset manufacturers add hardware to the devices, the only way out for biometric application developers is to use hardware that is already standard issue on mobile platforms. Besides using the touch-screen for some sort of behavioral biometric application, that means using the phone's microphone for voice and camera for face, and now, perhaps, palm-based biometrics.
I don't have an opinion about the viability of palm pattern recognition using cell phone cameras either from the algorithm side or the sensor side, but it is definitely interesting that people are trying to stretch mobile cameras into new applications.
UPDATE:
When I mentioned "using the touch-screen for some sort of behavioral biometric application," this is what I meant: Your finger swipe could become your password.
To log into the new iPad app she made, computer science student Napa Sae-Bae held her hand open, touched her fingertips to the tablet's surface, then drew her fingers together until they met in the center. Her app analyzed the way she performed the gesture — the speed of her swipe, the angles between each fingertip — to decide whether to let her in.UPDATE II: A more detailed article on the palm camera app is out today from phones review, video by engadget.
Seeing the app in action, it's very impressive.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Biometrics & the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)
Here's a Storify transcript of this morning's Tweet Chat about biometrics (#biometricchat).
I offer many thanks to John at M2SYS for asking me to fill in for him and Mike Kirkpatrick for taking time out of his busy schedule to lend his experience to our understanding of the FBI's use of biometrics for law enforcement and civilian purposes.
Background for the conversation is here.
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I offer many thanks to John at M2SYS for asking me to fill in for him and Mike Kirkpatrick for taking time out of his busy schedule to lend his experience to our understanding of the FBI's use of biometrics for law enforcement and civilian purposes.
Background for the conversation is here.
July, 19 2012 Biometric Chat with Mike Kirkpatrick : Assistant Director in Charge of the Bureau's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division from April 2001 - August 2004.
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