Title
Latent Fingerprint Recognition: Role of Texture Template.
Abstract
We propose a texture template approach, consisting of a set of virtual minutiae, to improve latent fingerprint recognition accuracy. To compensate for the lack of a sufficient number of minutiae in poor quality latent prints, we generate a set of virtual minutiae. However, due to a large number of these regularly placed virtual minutiae, texture based template matching has a large computational requirement compared to matching true minutiae templates. To improve both the accuracy and efficiency of the texture template matching, we investigate: i) both original and enhanced fingerprint patches for training convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) to improve the distinctiveness of descriptors associated with each virtual minutiae, ii) smaller patches around virtual minutiae and a fast ConvNet architecture to speed up descriptor extraction, iii) reducing the descriptor length, iv) a modified hierarchical graph matching strategy to improve the matching speed, and v) extraction of multiple texture templates to boost the performance. Experiments on NIST SD27 latent database show that the above strategies can improve the matching speed from 11 ms (24 threads) per comparison (between a latent and a reference print) to only 7.7 ms (single thread) per comparison while improving the rank1 accuracy by 8.9% against a gallery of 10K rolled prints.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/BTAS.2018.8698555
2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS)
Field
DocType
Volume
Template matching,Pattern recognition,Convolutional neural network,Minutiae,Computer science,Fingerprint recognition,Matching (graph theory),Fingerprint,NIST,Artificial intelligence,Template
Journal
abs/1804.10337
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2474-9680
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kai Cao120718.68
Anil Jain2335073334.84