Biometrics has been widely used in the last decades for security purposes and for increasing the confidence of people in the new informational systems. The present paper presents a new analysis and encoding method of dorsal hand vein patterns, for biometric recognition. Two multiresolution approaches, Discrete Wavelet Transform and Riesz Wavelet Transform, are firstly applied to extract directional image features. The resulted coefficients are encoded based on an ordinal procedure, namely Local Line Binary Pattern.