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January 2007 (Vol. 29, No. 1)
pp. 15-27
Pores and Ridges: High-Resolution Fingerprint Matching Using Level 3 Features
Anil K. Jain, IEEE
Yi Chen, IEEE
Meltem Demirkus, IEEE
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Fingerprint friction ridge details are generally described in a hierarchical order at three different levels, namely, Level 1 (pattern), Level 2 (minutia points), and Level 3 (pores and ridge contours). Although latent print examiners frequently take advantage of Level 3 features to assist in identification, Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) currently rely only on Level 1 and Level 2 features. In fact, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) standard of fingerprint resolution for AFIS is 500 pixels per inch (ppi), which is inadequate for capturing Level 3 features, such as pores. With the advances in fingerprint sensing technology, many sensors are now equipped with dual resolution (500 ppi/1,000 ppi) scanning capability. However, increasing the scan resolution alone does not necessarily provide any performance improvement in fingerprint matching, unless an extended feature set is utilized. As a result, a systematic study to determine how much performance gain one can achieve by introducing Level 3 features in AFIS is highly desired. We propose a hierarchical matching system that utilizes features at all the three levels extracted from 1,000 ppi fingerprint scans. Level 3 features, including pores and ridge contours, are automatically extracted using Gabor filters and wavelet transform and are locally matched using the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm. Our experiments show that Level 3 features carry significant discriminatory information. There is a relative reduction of 20 percent in the equal error rate (EER) of the matching system when Level 3 features are employed in combination with Level 1 and 2 features. This significant performance gain is consistently observed across various quality fingerprint images.
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Index Terms- Fingerprint recognition, high-resolution fingerprints, minutia, Level 3 features, extended feature set, pores, ridge contours, hierarchical matching.
Citation:
Anil K. Jain, Yi Chen, Meltem Demirkus,
"Pores and Ridges: High-Resolution Fingerprint Matching Using Level 3 Features,"
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
vol. 29,
no. 1,
pp. 15-27,
Jan.,
2007
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