A Statistical Study on the Fingerprint Minutiae Distribution

Author

Chen, Jiansheng ; Moon, Yiu-Sang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

14-19 May 2006

Abstract

Fingerprint minutiae distribution is the key issue of fingerprint individuality study. A method for studying fingerprint minutiae distribution by analyzing their second order statistical properties is proposed in this paper. Experiments have been performed on 467 different fingerprints selected from three major fingerprint databases. Results show that fingerprint minutiae tend to overdisperse on a small scale; and cluster on a large scale. Our findings which have successfully explained and unified various previous research observations should enlighten the study of fingerprint minutiae pattern modeling, an important foundation for boosting improvement in the fingerprint authentication technology

Keywords

fingerprint identification; statistical analysis; fingerprint authentication technology; fingerprint minutiae distribution; statistical study; Authentication; Boosting; Computer science; Databases; Fingerprint recognition; Large-scale systems; Moon; Pattern analysis; Statistical analysis; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0469-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1660306

Filename

1660306