Title :
On the effects of image quality degradation on minutiae- and ridge-based automatic fingerprint recognition
Author :
Fierrez-Aguilar, J. ; Munoz-Serrano, L.M. ; Alonso-Fernandez, F. ; Ortega-Garcia, J.
Author_Institution :
ATVS/Biometrics Res. Lab., Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
The effect of image quality degradation on the verification performance of automatic fingerprint recognition is investigated. We study the performance of two fingerprint matchers based on minutiae and ridge information under varying fingerprint image quality. The ridge-based system is found to be more robust to image quality degradation than the minutiae-based system for a number of different image quality criteria.
Keywords :
fingerprint identification; image processing; fingerprint matcher; image quality degradation; minutiae-based automatic fingerprint recognition; ridge-based automatic fingerprint recognition; Access control; Biometrics; Degradation; Fingerprint recognition; Forensics; HDTV; Image matching; Image quality; Iris; Robustness;
Conference_Titel :
Security Technology, 2005. CCST '05. 39th Annual 2005 International Carnahan Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9245-0
DOI :
10.1109/CCST.2005.1594877
