Biometrics - Why finger vein?
Advantages over existing biometric technologies:
Privacy |
of the card holders personal data |
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Practicality |
ease of use and registration |
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Fit for Purpose |
security |
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Processing |
transaction speed of processing and turn around time |
Finger vein authentication technology has several important features that set it apart from other forms of biometrics as a highly secure and convenient means of personal authentication.
- Resistant to criminal tampering: Because veins are hidden inside the body, there is little risk of forgery or theft.
- The FV pattern is inside the finger and cannot be acquired easily without consent
- High accuracy:
- FRR - less than 0.01% for the FRR (False Rejection Rate),
- FAR - less than 0.0001% for the FAR (False Acceptance Rate)
- FTE - 0% for the FTE (Failure To Enroll). - Unique and constant: Finger vein patterns are different even among identical twins and remain constant through the adult years.
- Contactless: The use of near-infrared light allows for non-invasive, contactless imaging that ensures both convenience and cleanliness for the user experience.
- Ease of feature extraction: Finger vein patterns are relatively stable and clearly captured, enabling the use of low-resolution cameras to take vein images for small-size, simple data image processing.
- Fast authentication speed: One-to-one authentication takes less than one second.
- The authentication device can be compact due to the small size of fingers.