Title
Latent fingerprint indexing: Fusion of level 1 and level 2 features
Abstract
Fingerprints have been widely used as a biometric trait for person recognition. Due to the wide acceptance and deployment of fingerprint matching systems, there is a steady increase in the size of fingerprint databases in law enforcement and national ID agencies. Thus, it is of great interest to develop methods that, for a given query fingerprint (rolled or latent), can efficiently filter out a large portion of the reference or background database based on a coarse matching (or indexing) strategy. In this work, we propose an indexing technique, primarily for latents, that combines multiple level 1 and level 2 features to filter out a large portion of the background database while maintaining the latent matching accuracy. Our approach consists of combining minutiae, singular points, orientation field and frequency information. Experimental results carried out on 258 latents in NIST SD27 against a large background database (267K rolled prints) show that the proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art fingerprint indexing techniques reported in the literature. At a penetration rate of 20%, our approach can reach a hit rate of 90.3%, with a five-fold reduction in the latent search (indexing + matching) time, while maintaining the latent matching accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/BTAS.2013.6712748
Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
database indexing,feature extraction,fingerprint identification,image fusion,image matching,visual databases,NIST SD27,biometric trait,coarse matching strategy,feature fusion,fingerprint databases,fingerprint matching systems,fingerprint query,five-fold reduction,frequency information,latent fingerprint indexing technique,law enforcement agencies,level 1 features,level 2 features,national ID agencies,orientation field,person recognition,singular points
Hit rate,Data mining,Pattern recognition,Fingerprint Verification Competition,Computer science,Minutiae,Search engine indexing,Fingerprint,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Biometrics,Database index
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.46
19
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alessandra A. Paulino1472.88
Eryun Liu213811.46
Kai Cao320718.68
Anil Jain4335073334.84