The Martigny-based Idiap research institute and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland have jointly developed a prototype of a mobile finger-vein sensor for portable or embedded biometrics applications.The institute says that the developed prototype is based on a reflexion technique using an innovative configuration of NIR illumination, unlike most technologies for finger-vein capture which are based on a transmission technique of Near-Infrared Light (NIR). This work was jointly funded by the European project FP7 BEAT, the HES-SO project VERA and the Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing. The Idiap Research Institute is an independent, nonprofit, research foundation affiliated with Ecole Polytechnique FÉdÉrale de Lausanne (EPFL). Its activities encompass basic research and development in the areas of multimedia information management, perceptual and cognitive systems, social media, biometric person recognition, multimodal information interfaces, and large scale machine learning.
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