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Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition

Chapters 1 & 2 Presentation by Konda Jayashree. Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition. History of fingerprints. Human fingerprints have been discovered on a large number of archaeological artifacts and historical items

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Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition

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  1. Chapters 1 & 2 Presentation by Konda Jayashree Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition

  2. History of fingerprints • Human fingerprints have been discovered on a large number of archaeological artifacts and historical items • In 1684, the English plant morphologist, Nehemiah Grew, published the first scientific paper reporting his systematic study on the ridge, furrow, and pore structure • In 1788, a detailed description of the anatomical formations of fingerprints was made by Mayer. • In 1823, Purkinji proposed the first fingerprint classification, which classified into nine categories • Sir Francis Galton introduced the minutae features for fingerprint matching in late 19th century

  3. History of fingerprints

  4. Formation of fingerprints • Fingerprints are fully formed at about seven months of fetus development • General characteristics of the fingerprint emerge as the skin on the fingertip begins to differentiate. • flow of amniotic fluids around the fetus and its position in the uterus change during the differentiation process • Thus the cells on the fingertip grow in a microenvironment that is slightly different from hand to hand and finger to finger

  5. Fingerprint sensing • Based on the mode of acquisition, a fingerprint image is classified as Off line image Live-scan image

  6. There are a number of live-scan sensing mechanisms that can detect the ridges and valleys present in the fingertip Examples are Optical FTIR Capacitive Pressure-based Ultrasound

  7. Fingerprint Representation • Fingerprint representation should have following two properties • Saliency • Suitability

  8. Fingerprint feature extraction • Fingerprint pattern, when analyzed at different scales, exhibits different types of features • global level - delineates a ridge line flow pattern • local level – minute details can be identified • Very fine level – intra-ridge details can be detected

  9. Difficulty in fingerprint matching • Fingerprint matching is a difficult problem due to large variability in different impressions of the same finger • Main factors responsible for intra-class variations are: displacement, rotation, partial overlap, non-linear distortion, variable pressure, skin condition, noise and feature extraction errors

  10. Fingerprint Matching • A three class categorization of fingerprint matching approaches is: • Correlation based matching • Minutae based matching • Ridge feature based matching

  11. Fingerprint classification and Indexing • To reduce the search time and computational complexity • technique used to assign a fingerprint to one of the several pre-specified types • Only a limited number of categories have been identified, and there are many ambiguous fingerprints

  12. Synthetic fingerprints • Performance evaluation of fingerprint recognition systems is very data dependent • To obtain tight confidence intervals at very low error rates, large databases of images are required and its expensive • To solve this problem synthetic fingerprint images are introduced

  13. Designing Fingerprint recognition systems • The major issues in designing the fingerprint recognition system includes • Defining the system working mode • Choosing the hardware and software components • Dealing with exceptions • Dealing with poor quality fingerprint images • Defining effective administration and optimization policy

  14. Designing Fingerprint recognition systems • The system designer should take into account several factors • Proven technology • System interoperability and standards • Cost/performance trade off

  15. Securing fingerprint recognition systems • Maintaining the fingerprint recognition system is critical and requires resolving the frauds like • Repudiation • Coercion • Circumvention • Contamination • Denial of service attacks

  16. Applications

  17. Fingerprint Sensing • Acquisition of fingerprint Images was performed by two techniques • Off-line sensing • Live-scan sensing

  18. The general structure of fingerprint scanner is shown in figure

  19. Resolution Area Number of pixels Dynamic Range Geometric Accuracy Image Quality The main parameters characterizing a fingerprint image are

  20. Off-line fingerprint Acquisition • Although the first fingerprint scanners were introduced more than 30 years ago, still ink-technique is used in some applications Why & What are the advantages? Because it has the possibility of producing Rolled impressions Latent impressions

  21. Rolled fingerprint Impressions

  22. Latent fingerprint images

  23. Live scan fingerprint sensing • The most important part of a fingerprint scanner is the sensor. • All the existing scanners belong to one of the 3 families Optical sensors Solid state sensors Ultrasound sensors

  24. Optical sensors • FTIR (Frustrated Total Internal Reflection)

  25. FTIR with sheet prism • In this, sheet prism is used instead of glass prism • Only Advantage is Mechanical Assembly is reduced to some extent

  26. Optical Fibers • In Optical Fibers, a significant reduction of the packagiing size can be achieved by substituting prism and lens with a fiber optic platen

  27. Electro Optical

  28. Solid state sensors • These are designed to overcome the size and cost problems • Silicon based sensors are used in this • Neither optical components nor external CCD/CMOS image sensors are needed • Four main effects have been produced to convert the physical information into electrical signals • Capacitive • Thermal • Electric field • Piezo Electric

  29. Capacitive

  30. Thermal sensors • Works based on temperature differentials • Sensors are made of pyro electric material • Temperature differential produces an image, but this image soon disappears • because the thermal equilibrium is quickly reached and pixel temperature is stabilized • Solution is sweeping method • Advantages • Not sensitive to ESD • Can accept thick protective coating

  31. Electric field • Sensor consists of drive ring • This generates a sinusoidal signal and a matrix of active antennas • To image a fingerprint, the analogue response of each element in the sensor matrix is amplified, integrated and digitized

  32. Piezo- Electric • Pressure sensitive sensors • Produce an electrical signal when mechanical stress is applied to them • Sensor surface is made up of a non-conducting dielectric material • Ridges and valleys are present at different distances from the surface , they result in different amounts of current

  33. Ultrasound sensors • Principle is Echography

  34. Ultrasound sensors • Advantages of Ultrasound sensors Good Quality images • Disadvantages Scanner is large Mechanical parts are quite expensive

  35. Touch Vs Sweep • Drawbacks of Touch method • Sensor can become dirty • Visible latent fingerprints remains on the sensor • Rotation of the fingerprint may be a problem • Strict trade-off between the cost and the size of the sensing area

  36. Sweeping Method

  37. Advantages of Sweeping Method • Equilibrium is continuously broken when sweeping, as ridges and valleys touch the pixels alternately, introducing a continuous temperature change • Sensors always look clean • No latent fingerprints remain • No rotation

  38. Drawbacks • Novice user may encounter difficulties • Interface must be able to capture a sufficient number of fingerprint slices • Reconstruction of the image from the slices is time consuming

  39. Image Reconstruction from the slices • Main stages are • Slice quality computation • Slice pair registration • Relaxation • Mosaicking

  40. Algorithm for fingerprint recognition from the slices

  41. Fingerprint scanners and their features • Interface • Frames per second • Automatic finger detection • Encryption • Supported operating systems

  42. Sensing area Vs Accuracy • Recognizing fingerprints acquired through small area sensors is difficult

  43. An interesting alternative to deal with small sensing areas is fingerprint Mosaicking

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