Biometric-Auth

Simple Hand Geometry based authentication scheme, capable of being packaged with an application.

Installation

  1. Database Configuration
  • MySQL – Use the database.sql file to create the required table structure in the MYSQL database.
  • Derby – Use the database-derby file to generate the table structure in derby embedded
  1. Configure the database properties in the src/main/resources/hibernate.cfg.xml ( Follow the example given in hibernate.cfg.example.xml given )

  2. Build the application using maven ( mvn clean install )

  3. Use target/Biometric-Auth-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar to run the application

Scheme

The system uses 12 basic measurements on the hand geometry

  • Height of fingers
  • Width of the Fingers (Measured at the base)
  • Measurements of the palm ( refer the image )