Title
Automated Latent Fingerprint Recognition.
Abstract
Latent fingerprints are one of the most important and widely used evidence in law enforcement and forensic agencies worldwide. Yet, NIST evaluations show that the performance of state-of-the-art latent recognition systems is far from satisfactory. An automated latent fingerprint recognition system with high accuracy is essential to compare latents found at crime scenes to a large collection of reference prints to generate a candidate list of possible mates. In this paper, we propose an automated latent fingerprint recognition algorithm that utilizes Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) for ridge flow estimation and minutiae descriptor extraction, and extract complementary templates (two minutiae templates and one texture template) to represent the latent. The comparison scores between the latent and a reference print based on the three templates are fused to retrieve a short candidate list from the reference database. Experimental results show that the rank-1 identification accuracies are 64.7% for the NIST SD27 and 75.3% for the WVU latent databases, against a reference database of 100K rolled prints. By score-level (rank-level) fusion of our system with the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) latent AFIS, the overall rank-1 identification performance can be improved from 64.7% and 75.3% to 73.3% (74.4%) and 76.6% (78.4%) on NIST SD27 and WVU latent databases, respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2818162
IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
Feature extraction,NIST,Databases,Forensics,Fingerprint recognition,Friction,Estimation
Automated fingerprint identification,Data mining,Crime scene,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Reference database,Convolutional neural network,Fingerprint recognition,Minutiae,Feature extraction,NIST,Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/1704.01925
4
0162-8828
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.56
8
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kai Cao120718.68
Anil Jain2335073334.84