AI can use the veins on your hand like fingerprints to identify you

By Matthew Sparkes

The pattern of veins on the back of someone’s hand is as unique as their fingerprints and can be used to identify people even with a cheap commercial camera. The technique could be used in smart door locks or even to identify people from CCTV images.

Syed Shah at the University of New South Wales in Australia and his colleagues used images from 35 volunteers, taking 500 photos of the back of one of their hands each time with a commercial Intel RealSense …