eigenfinger

English

Etymology

From eigen- +‎ finger.

Noun

eigenfinger (plural eigenfingers)

1. The eigenmap that provides a biometric description of a finger.
   • 2009, Been-Chian Chien, Tzung-Pei Hong, Opportunities and Challenges for Next-Generation Applied Intelligence, page 26:

     Ribaric et. al. [5] proposed a biometric identification system by extracting the eigenpalm and eigenfinger features from subimages of palm and fingers.

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• eigenpalm