A novel approach to fingerprint image quality

Author

Tabassi, Elham ; Wilson, Charles L.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2005

Abstract

We present a novel measure of fingerprint image quality, which can be used to estimate fingerprint match performance. This means presenting the matcher with good quality fingerprint images will result in high matcher performance, and vice versa, the matcher will perform poorly for poor quality fingerprints. We discuss the implementation of our fingerprint image quality metric and we present the results of testing it on 280 different combinations of fingerprint image data and fingerprint matcher systems. We found that the metric predicts matcher performance for all systems and datasets. Our definition of quality can be applied to other biometric modalities and upon proper feature extraction can be used to assess quality of any mode of biometric samples.

Keywords

image matching; biometric modalities; datasets; feature extraction; fingerprint image data; fingerprint image quality; fingerprint matcher systems; quality metric; Biometrics; Feature extraction; Fingerprint recognition; Histograms; Image matching; Image quality; NIST; Neural networks; Probes; System testing; DET; ROC; biometrics; fingerprint; image quality; minutia; neural network; performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 2005. ICIP 2005. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9134-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.2005.1529985

Filename

1529985