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Fingerprint Classification

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Encyclopedia of Biometrics

Synonyms

Fingerprint indexing; Fingerprint pre-matching; Fingerprint retrieval

Definition

Fingerprint classification is a procedure in which fingerprints are grouped in a consistent and reliable way, such that different impressions of a same finger fall into a same group. It can be viewed as a coarse-level pre-matching procedure so that a query fingerprint needs to be further compared with only a smaller subset of fingerprints in the database belonging to the same group. It is often necessary to integrate a classification module into a fingerprint identification system to speed up the database search. A database can be partitioned into human-interpretable fingerprint classes based on Galton–Henry scheme or into machine-generated fingerprint classes.

Introduction

A fingerprint recognition system captures a user’s fingerprint and compares it with the information stored in a database to establish or to authenticate his/her identity. If an identity is claimed, the system compares the query...

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  1. Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Link, Singapore

    Xudong Jiang

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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Departments of Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Anil Jain (Professor) (Professor)

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Jiang, X. (2009). Fingerprint Classification. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_56

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