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Table 1 Overview of most relevant prototypical hardware setups for capturing finger images

From: An overview of touchless 2D fingerprint recognition

Capturing method

Authors

Year

Properties

Line-scan camera

Mil’shtein et al. [14]

2009

Camera rotating around finger, distortion-free capturing

3 industrial cameras

Wang et al. [15]

2009

Finger guidance, mosaicking

Rotating camera

Noh et al. [16]

2011

5 finger capturing, guidances for each finger

Variable-focus liquid lens

Tsai et al. [17]

2014

External illumination, multi focal planes, fast capturing

Low-cost equipment

Ramachandra et al. [18]

2014

LED illumination, box setup to environmental influences

Industrial camera

Weissenfeld et al. [19]

2018

Multi-purpose device, bright-field illumination, 4 ×2 LEDs