Title
Robust Minutiae Extractor: Integrating Deep Networks and Fingerprint Domain Knowledge
Abstract
We propose a fully automatic minutiae extractor, called MinutiaeNet, based on deep neural networks with compact feature representation for fast comparison of minutiae sets. Specifically, first a network, called CoarseNet, estimates the minutiae score map and minutiae orientation based on convolutional neural network and fingerprint domain knowledge (enhanced image, orientation field, and segmentation map). Subsequently, another network, called FineNet, refines the candidate minutiae locations based on score map. We demonstrate the effectiveness of using the fingerprint domain knowledge together with the deep networks. Experimental results on both latent (NIST SD27) and plain (FVC 2004) public domain fingerprint datasets provide comprehensive empirical support for the merits of our method. Further, our method finds minutiae sets that are better in terms of precision and recall in comparison with state-of-the-art on these two datasets. Given the lack of annotated fingerprint datasets with minutiae ground truth, the proposed approach to robust minutiae detection will be useful to train network-based fingerprint matching algorithms as well as for evaluating fingerprint individuality at scale. MinutiaeNet is implemented in Tensorflow: https://github.com/luannd/MinutiaeNet
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ICB2018.2018.00013
2018 International Conference on Biometrics (ICB)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Minutiae,extractor,deep neural networks,fingerprint,domain knowledge
Conference
abs/1712.09401
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2376-4201
978-1-5386-4286-3
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.60
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dinh-Luan Nguyen1111.30
Kai Cao220718.68
Anil Jain3335073334.84