Title
Learning Fingerprint Reconstruction: From Minutiae to Image
Abstract
The set of minutia points is considered to be the most distinctive feature for fingerprint representation and is widely used in fingerprint matching. It was believed that the minutiae set does not contain sufficient information to reconstruct the original fingerprint image from which minutiae were extracted. However, recent studies have shown that it is indeed possible to reconstruct fingerprint images from their minutiae representations. Reconstruction techniques demonstrate the need for securing fingerprint templates, improving the template interoperability, and improving fingerprint synthesis. But, there is still a large gap between the matching performance obtained from original fingerprint images and their corresponding reconstructed fingerprint images. In this paper, the prior knowledge about fingerprint ridge structures is encoded in terms of orientation patch and continuous phase patch dictionaries to improve the fingerprint reconstruction. The orientation patch dictionary is used to reconstruct the orientation field from minutiae, while the continuous phase patch dictionary is used to reconstruct the ridge pattern. Experimental results on three public domain databases (FVC2002 DB1_A, FVC2002 DB2_A, and NIST SD4) demonstrate that the proposed reconstruction algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art reconstruction algorithms in terms of both: 1) spurious minutiae and 2) matching performance with respect to type-I attack (matching the reconstructed fingerprint against the same impression from which minutiae set was extracted) and type-II attack (matching the reconstructed fingerprint against a different impression of the same finger).
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TIFS.2014.2363951
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Keywords
Field
DocType
dictionaries,spirals,nist,image reconstruction,fingerprint recognition,gray scale
Iterative reconstruction,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Minutiae,Fingerprint recognition,Impression,Fingerprint,NIST,Reconstruction algorithm,Artificial intelligence,Grayscale
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
1
1556-6013
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.38
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kai Cao120718.68
Anil Jain2335073334.84