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1. A biometric authentication system comprising:
a data storage system configured to maintain, for a group of people, biometric data that includes respective collections of features for persons in the group of people, each collection of features describing characteristics of a finger of a hand of a person; and a biometric verification system that includes at least one processor that is configured to interact with a computer storage medium to perform operations comprising: accessing an image of a first hand associated with a person, the image having been captured by an image capture device; determining, from a fused image of the first hand and for each finger of the first hand, a respective collection of features, each feature describing a characteristic of the finger, wherein the fused image of the first hand is generated based on a comparison of first and second segmented images of the first hand; accessing, from the data storage system, for each finger of a second hand, a respective collection of matching features, each feature describing a characteristic of the finger; generating, based on a comparison of collections of features that correspond to fingers of the first hand and collections of matching features that correspond to fingers of the second hand, a similarity score that measures a similarity between the first hand and the second hand; and outputting a result based on the similarity score. |