1. A biometric verification system comprising: a computer storage medium; and at least one processor configured to interact with the computer storage medium to perform operations comprising: accessing a color image of a hand associated with a person, the color image having been captured by an image capture device; generating, using the color image, a graylevel image of the hand; segmenting the graylevel image of the hand generated using the color image into foreground portions and background portions; segmenting the color image of the hand into foreground portions and background portions; and combining the segmented graylevel image with the segmented color image based on the foreground portions and background portions of the segmented graylevel image and the foreground portions and background portions of the segmented color image to form a fused image of the hand.