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Filterbank-Based Fingerprint Matching (A.K.Jain, S.Prabhakar, L.Hong and S.Panka

nti, 2000)
Abstract
With identity fraud in our society reaching unprecedented proportions and with a
n increasing emphasis on
the emerging automatic personal identification applications, biometrics-based ve
rification, especially
fingerprint-based identification, is receiving a lot of attention. There are two
major shortcomings
of the traditional approaches to fingerprint representation. For a considerable
fraction of population,
the representations based on explicit detection of complete ridge structures in
the fingerprint are
difficult to extract automatically. The widely used minutiae-based representatio
n does not utilize a
significant component of the rich discriminatory information available in the fi
ngerprints. Local ridge
structures cannot be completely characterized by minutiae. Further, minutiae-bas
ed matching has difficulty
in quickly matching two fingerprint images containing different number of unregi
stered minutiae points.
The proposed filter-based algorithm uses a bank of Gabor filters to capture both
local and global details
in a fingerprint as a compact fixed length FingerCode. The fingerprint matching
is based on the Euclidean
distance between the two corresponding FingerCodes and hence is extremely fast.
We are able to achieve a
verification accuracy which is only marginally inferior to the best results of m
inutiae-based algorithms
published in the open literature. Our system performs better than a state-of-the
-art minutiae-based system
when the performance requirement of the application system does not demand a ver
y low false acceptance rate.
Finally, we show that the matching performance can be improved by combining the
decisions of the matchers
based on complementary (minutiae-based and filter-based) fingerprint information
.
Index Terms: Biometrics, FingerCode, fingerprints, flow pattern, Gabor filters,
matching, texture, verification.

This code was developed using:

MATLAB Version 7.0.1 and Image Processing Toolbox Version 5.0.1 (R14SP1)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack
4)
Java VM Version: Java 1.4.2_04 with Sun Microsystems Inc. Java HotSpot(TM) Cli
ent VM

References:
 A. K. Jain, S. Prabhakar, and S. Pankanti, "A Filterbank-based Representation
for
Classification and Matching of Fingerprints", International Joint Conference o
n
Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 3284-3285, Washington DC, July 10-16, 1999.
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~prabhaka/publications.html
"Fingerprint Classification and Matching Using a Filterbank", Salil Prabhakar
A DISSERTATION Submitted to Michigan State University in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, Computer
Science & Engineering, 2001
http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/SalilThesis.pdf

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