the invention relates to a personal identification method and to a corresponding apparatus . their elements are mainly a light source emitting a beam of light towards a target , a first imaging module receiving a return beam coming back from said target and displaying an image of the target of a first type , and a second imaging module also receiving said return beam and displaying an image of the target of a second type . an identification module allows to combine the information given by said image of a first type and said image of a second type and to identify , or not , a person according to a similarity criterion .