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Fujitsu's Palm Vein Technology Friday, November 03, 2006 - Iddo Genuth & Lucille Fresco-Cohen Home >> Articles >> Defense and Security   
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For several years, Fujitsu has been developing a new type of biometric technology expected to be more secure, reliable, and perceived as less intrusive than current biometric systems, which protect against bank card thefts, fraudulent financial transactions, and unauthorized entries.
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The Basis of Palm Vein Technology
An individual's palm vein image is converted by algorithms into data points, which is then compressed, encrypted, and stored by the software and registered along with the other details in his profile as a reference for future comparison. Then, each time a person logs in attempting to gain access by a palm scan to a particular bank account or secured entryway, etc., the newly captured image is likewise processed and compared to the registered one or to the bank of stored files for verification, all in a period of seconds. Numbers and positions of veins and their crossing points are all compared and, depending on verification, the person is either granted or denied access. How Secure is the Technology?On the basis of testing the technology on more than 70,000 individuals, Fujitsu declared that the new system had a false rejection rate of 0.01% (i.e., only one out of 10,000 scans were incorrect denials for access), and a false acceptance rate of less than 0.00008% (i.e., incorrect approval for access in one in over a million scans). Also, if your profile is registered with your right hand, don't log in with your left - the patterns of an individual's two hands differ. And if you registered your profile as a child, it'll still be recognized as you grow, as an individual's patterns of veins are established in utero (before birth). No two people in the world share a palm vein pattern - even those of identical twins differ (so your evil twin won't be able to draw on your portion of the inheritance!) Potential Applications
TFOT had a quick word with Mr. H. Watanuki of Fujitsu's Biometric Business Development Department about the application of their palm vein technology. Q: Is there currently a retail product on the market that uses your technology? A: Yes. Some Japanese banks have adopted our palm vein authentication technology on their ATMs (e.g., Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi).
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Can\'t we forge a palm recognition technique. Is there any technology that can be used to take picture of a persons veins undernath the palm. |
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There is a chance of cuting of once palm to be used by others as an ID? |
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1) it is a near-infrared scan relying on the rays for capture, holding up a picture will show up with nothing 2) since the rays are absorbed by deoxygenated hemoglobin, and thats what creates the pattern, a dead hand would not have the correct pattern... the vein AND arteries would show up from a detection and access standpoint the solution seems pretty seamless and with other manufacturers entering the field, the cost of these readers should decrease. my only hesitation before i start touting this as the cure for all things concerning access IdM is the inherent problem of the root data. sure someone cannot dup a palm, but they can still get into the database backend and insert their vein imprint to allow access. it all gets back to securing the database where all the information gets held. palm vein seems to have solved the physical user side, but how is crypto doing on their end? |
