Performance Evaluation of Fingerprint Verification Systems

This paper is concerned with the performance evaluation of fingerprint verification systems. After an initial classification of biometric testing initiatives, we explore both the theoretical and practical issues related to performance evaluation by presenting the outcomeofthe recentFingerprint Verification Competition(FVC2004). FVC2004 was organizedby the authorsof thiswork forthe purpose of assessing the state-of-the-art in this challenging pattern recognition application and making available a new common benchmark for an unambiguous comparison of fingerprint-based biometric systems. FVC2004 is an independent, stronglysupervised evaluation performed at the evaluators' site on evaluators' hardware. This allowed the test to be completely controlled and the computation times of different algorithms to be fairly compared. The experience and feedback received from previous, similar competitions (FVC2000 and FVC2002) allowed us to improve the organization and methodology of FVC200...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: PAMI
• Authors: Raffaele Cappelli, Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni, James L. Wayman, Anil K. Jain
• Keywords: Algorithms, Fingerprint Verification Systems, PAMI 2006, Performance Evaluation