The present invention provides a process and
system for identifying a person. According to the inventive method, and with the aid of the
system, a sensor is used to capture biometric characteristics of a person to be identified. Identification data is extracted and the identification data of the person to be identified is compared to reference data in a
database. In a preferred embodiment, an image is taken of creases in the
skin of the person to be identified, reference crease data having been taken beforehand and stored in a
database, and a first recognition is effected by means of the
skin crease image in a filtering stage. After this first recognition, the reference data of the
database may be filtered using other biometric characteristics, with continuing recognition using these other characteristics.