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Sensors 2012, 12, 8691-8709; doi:10.3390/s120708691 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article A Study of Hand Back Skin Texture Patterns for Personal Identification and Gender Classification Jin Xie, Lei Zhang *, Jane You, David Zhang and Xiaofeng Qu Biometrics Research Center, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong; E-Mails: csjxie@.hk (J.X.); csjyou@.hk (J.Y.); csdzhang@.hk (D.Z.); csxfqu@.hk (X.Q.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: cslzhang@.hk. Received: 17 May 2012; in revised form: 14 June 2012 / A