Title
Fingerprint matching by thin-plate spline modelling of elastic deformations
Abstract
This paper presents a novel minutiae matching method that describes elastic distortions in fingerprints by means of a thin-plate spline model, which is estimated using a local and a global matching stage. After registration of the fingerprints according to the estimated model, the number of matching minutiae can be counted using very tight matching thresholds. For deformed fingerprints, the algorithm gives considerably higher matching scores compared to rigid matching algorithms, while only taking 100ms on a 1GHz P-III machine. Furthermore, it is shown that the observed deformations are different from those described by theoretical models proposed in the literature.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1016/S0031-3203(03)00036-0
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fingerprint verification,Minutiae matching,Elastic deformations,Thin-plate spline models,Registration
Spline (mathematics),Global matching,Thin plate spline,Pattern recognition,Fingerprint Verification Competition,Minutiae,Fingerprint,Theoretical models,Artificial intelligence,Elasticity (economics),Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36
8
0031-3203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
88
4.93
12
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
a m bazen159047.26
Sabih Gerez211111.24