Sensor Interoperability and Fusion in Fingerprint Verification: A Case Study using Minutiae-and Ridge-Based Matchers

Author

Alonso-Fernandez, F. ; Veldhuis, R.N.J. ; Bazen, A.M. ; Fierrez-Aguilar, J. ; Ortega-Garcia, J.

Author_Institution

Escuela Politecnica Superior, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid

fYear

2006

fDate

5-8 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Information fusion in fingerprint recognition has been studied in several papers. However, only a few papers have been focused on sensor interoperability and sensor fusion. In this paper, these two topics are studied using a multisensor database acquired with three different fingerprint sensors. Authentication experiments using minutiae and ridge-based matchers are reported. Results show that the performance drops dramatically when matching images from different sensors. We have also observed that fusing scores from different sensors results in better performance than fusing different instances from the same sensor

Keywords

fingerprint identification; image matching; sensor fusion; fingerprint recognition; fingerprint sensors; fingerprint verification; image matching; information fusion; minutiae-based matching; multisensor database; ridge-based matching; sensor fusion; sensor interoperability; Authentication; Biometrics; Biosensors; Data mining; Feature extraction; Fingerprint recognition; ISO standards; Sensor fusion; Sensor systems; Standardization; Fingerprint; minutiae; ridge; sensor fusion; sensor interoperability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2006. ICARCV '06. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0341-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4214-042-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICARCV.2006.345483

Filename

4150412