Title
Learning compact binary quantization of Minutia Cylinder Code
Abstract
With explosive growth in fingerprint database, Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) has become more difficult than ever. Consequently, it is necessary to get an effective and discriminative fingerprint feature binary representation. In this paper, we firstly analyze the characteristic of Minutia Cylinder Code (MCC) representation to find that it is strongly bit-correlated and with a lossy binary quantization. Accordingly, we propose an optimization model to learn a feature projection matrix resulting in dimensionality reduction as well as diminishing quantization loss. Eventually, the real-valued version of MCC is learnt to get Compact Binary Minutia Cylinder Code (CBMCC) with balanced independent property and minimal binary quantization loss. The performance test shows that CBMCC is effective and discriminative as it has maximum intra-bit variance while minimum inter-bit correlation. Furthermore, numerous experiments on public databases demonstrate that CBMCC is advantageous for fingerprint retrieval since it achieves a high correct index performance with a fairly low penetration rate.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ICB.2016.7550054
2016 International Conference on Biometrics (ICB)
Keywords
Field
DocType
fingerprint database,automatic fingerprint identification system,AFIS,fingerprint feature binary representation,MCC representation,lossy binary quantization,optimization model,feature projection matrix,dimensionality reduction,compact binary minutia cylinder code,CBMCC,balanced independent property,intra-bit variance,inter-bit correlation,public databases,fingerprint retrieval,learning compact binary quantization
Dimensionality reduction,Pattern recognition,Lossy compression,Computer science,Fingerprint recognition,Binary code,Fingerprint,Artificial intelligence,Quantization (signal processing),Discriminative model,Binary number
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2376-4201
978-1-5090-1870-3
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chaochao Bai182.08
Weiqiang Wang246949.23
Tong Zhao3147.30
Mingqiang Li410.68