METHOD FOR VERIFYING THE IDENTITY OF A USER BY IDENTIFYING AN OBJECT WITHIN AN IMAGE THAT HAS A BIOMETRIC CHARACTERISTIC OF THE USER AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD

摘要

A method for identifying a user using an image of an object of the user that has a biometric characteristic of the user, wherein the object is one of a palm of the hand of the user, a face of the user, an eye of the user, a bottom of a foot of the user, the method comprising: obtaining, by an optical sensor of a mobile device, the image of the object; providing the image to a neural network; processing the image by the neural network, thereby identifying both, the position of the object and the object in the image; extracting, from the identified object, the biometric characteristic; storing the biometric characteristic in a storage device and/or providing at least the biometric characteristic as input to an identification means, comprising processing the input in order to determine whether the biometric characteristic identifies the user.