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1. Fingerprint RecognitionFuture Directions Salil Prabhakar
Digital Persona Inc.
2. Fingerprint Applications
3. Fingerprint Application Functionality
4. Challenges
5. Reasons for Accuracy Challenges
6. Fingerprint Individuality Estimation Accuracy; Information Limitation
7. Probability of a False Correspondence Accuracy; Information Limitation; Fingerprint Individuality Estimation
8. Probability of a False Correspondence Accuracy; Information Limitation; Fingerprint Individuality Estimation
9. Probability of a False Correspondence Accuracy; Information Limitation; Fingerprint Individuality Estimation
10. Upper Bound on Fingerprint AccuracyAccuracy; Information Limitation; Fingerprint Individuality Estimation
11. Lower Bound on Fingerprint AccuracyAccuracy; Information Limitation; Fingerprint Individuality Estimation
12. Information Limitation: ConclusionAccuracy; Information Limitation
13. Fingerprint RepresentationAccuracy; Representation Limitation Ideal representation would maximize the inter-class variability and minimize the intra-class variability
14. Fingerprint RepresentationAccuracy; Representation Limitation
15. Conventional RepresentationsAccuracy; Representation Limitation Minutiae-based
Sequential design based on the following modules: Segmentation, local ridge orientation estimation (singularity and more detection), local ridge frequency estimation, fingerprint enhancement, minutiae detection, and minutiae filtering and post-processing.
Ridge Feature-based
Size and shape of fingerprint, number, type, and position of singularities (cores and deltas), spatial relationship and geometrical attributes of the ridge lines, shape features, global and local texture information, sweat pores, fractal features.
16. Representations: Future DirectionsAccuracy; Representation Limitation Improvement of current representations through robust and reliable domain-specific image processing techniques such as:
Model-based orientation field estimation
Robust image enhancement and masking
New richer representations
Fusion of various representations
17. Fingerprint InvarianceAccuracy; Invariance Limitation Ideal matcher would perfectly model the invariant relationship in different impressions of the same finger
18. Minutiae MatchingAccuracy; Invariance Limitation Given two sets of minutiae points:
where x, y, and q are the x-coordinate, y-coordinate, and minutiae direction.
No point correspondence is known a priori
Nonlinear deformation between point sets
Spurious minutiae and missing minutiae
Errors in minutiae position and minutiae direction
19. Matching: Future DirectionsAccuracy; Invariance Limitation Alignment remains a difficult problem – develop alignment techniques that remain robust under the presence of false features
Understand and model fingerprint deformation
Fusion of various matchers (based on the same or different representations)
20. Scale 1:N Identification is a much harder problem (N large)
Accuracy
Speed
Traditionally: classify fingerprint into one of the few (4 or so) predefined fingerprint types
Problem: too few distinct bins; uneven natural distribution into these bins; many “ambiguous” fingerprints (17% NIST4 has two labels)
21. Scale: Future Directions Continuous classification
Feature-based indexing (search and retrieval) schemes (e.g., minutiae triplets)
Fast matchers
Classifier combination
22. Multiple Biometrics; Fusion A decision (and lower) level fusion of multiple biometrics can improve performance
In identification systems, fusion can also improve speed
Independence among modalities is key
Even combination of correlated modalities can be no worse than the best performing modality alone
Best combination scheme would be application dependent
23. Performance Evaluation Evaluation types: technology, scenario, operational
Dependent on composition of the population (occupation, age, demographics, race), the environment, the system operational mode, etc
Ideally, characterize the application-independent performance in laboratory and predict technology, scenario, and operational performances
Standardization and independent testing
Parametric and non-parametric estimation of confidence intervals and database size
Parametric and non-parametric and statistical modeling of inter-class and intra-class variations;
24. Usability, Security, Privacy Biometrics are not secrets and not revocable
Encryption, secure system design, and liveness detection solve this problem
Unintended functional scope; unintended application scope; covert acquisition
Legislation; self-regulation; independent regulatory organizations
Biometric Cryptosystems: fingerprint fuzzy vault
Alignment
Similarity metric in encrypted domain
Variable and unordered representation
Performance loss; ROC remains the bottleneck