A hybrid fusion method of fingerprint identification for high security applications

Though fingerprint identification is widely used now, its imperfect performance for some high security applications, such as ATM, the access control of nuclear power stations and exchequers, etc, is still a challenge. In high security applications, an extremely low false accept rate and as low as possible false reject rate are desired at the same time, which is called Double Low problem in this paper. It is to be noted that even a fingerprint system with very low equal error rate can not achieve such a Double Low goal. It is difficult to solve Double Low problem only by improving the performance of a certain individual fingerprint identification algorithm, and the fusion of various fingerprint identification algorithms becomes a promising way. In this paper, a hybrid fusion method of fingerprint identification is proposed to solve Double Low problem. Firstly, minutiae-based and ridge-based matching algorithms are used orderly, which is a kind of serial fusion strategy. Secondly, a ran...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICIP
• Authors: Yilong Yin, Yanbin Ning, Zhiguo Yang
• Keywords: False Accept Rate, Fingerprint Identification, Fusion Strategy, ICIP 2010, Image Processing