A sweeping fingerprint sensor converts fingerprints on a row by row basis through image reconstruction techniques. However, a built fingerprint image might appear to be truncated and distorted when the finger was swept across a fingerprint sensor at a non-linear speed. If the truncated fingerprint images were enrolled as reference targets and collected by any automated fingerprint identificatio...

Recently, a cryptographic construct, called fuzzy vault, has been proposed for cryptobiometric systems, and some implementations for fingerprint have been reported to protect the stored fingerprint template by hiding the fingerprint features. Also, solutions to the most challenging issue in applying the fuzzy vault to fingerprint have been proposed. One of the solutions exploits the idea of the...

Background: Recreational drugs have a significant impact on the lives of drug users, their close families and friends, as well as their society. Social, psychological, biological, and genetic factors could make a person more prone to using recreational drugs. Finger and A-B ridges (dermatoglyphics) are formed during the first and second trimesters of fetal development, under the influence of en...

This work complements our previous efforts in generating realistic fingerprint images for test purposes. The main variability which characterizes the acquisition of a fingerprint through an on-line sensor is modeled and a sequence of steps is defined to derive a series of impressions from the same master-fingerprint. This allows large fingerprint databases to be randomly generated according to ...

Fingerprint Recognition: Models and Applications By Soweon Yoon Fingerprint recognition has been successfully used in law enforcement and forensics to identify suspects and victims for over a century. Recent advances in automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS), coupled with the growing need for reliable person recognition, have resulted in an increased deployment of AFIS in broad app...

Biometric based authentication system provides robust security and ease of use than conventional methods of verification system. Among various biometrics namely iris, face and gait recognition, Fingerprint recognition has been extensively used by several organizations for recognition and authentication purpose because of its low cost, usability and reliable performance. However, the performance...

Biometric based applications guarantee for resolving numerous security hazards. As a method of preserving of privacy and the security of sensitive information, biometrics has been studied and used for the past few decades. Fingerprint is one of the most widely used biometrics. A number of fingerprint verification approaches have been proposed until now. However, fingerprint images acquired usin...

Minutiae-based matching techniques have been widely used in the implementation of multiple enrollment fingerprint recognition systems. However, these techniques suffer the difficulty of automatically extracting all minutiae points due to failure to detect the complete ridge structures of a fingerprint. With poor quality fingerprint images, detection of minutiae points as well as describing all ...