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Difficulty level of a fingerprint dataset
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ISO/IEC TR 29198, Characterization and measurement of difficulty for fingerprint databases for technology evaluation, about to be published as an ISO/IEC Technical Report as of the time of this writing [1] defines the level of difficulty (LOD) as a relative measure of a fingerprint dataset which represents how “challenging” or “stressing” the dataset is for recognition compared to other datasets. In other words, it represents how difficult it is to achieve better recognition accuracy within the specific dataset. The computation of LOD is based on factors such as relative sample quality, common area (or overlapping region), and deformation between a pair of mated fingerprint impressions. When agglomerated for the entire mated pairs in a dataset, the LOD can be used for characterizing and measuring the difficulty level of the fingerprint dataset used in technology evaluation [1, 2].
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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37, ISO/IEC TR 29198 – Information technology - Characterization and measurement of difficulty for fingerprint databases for technology evaluation
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Kim, H., Li, S. (2015). Fingerprint Databases for Technology Evaluation, Characterization and Measurement of Difficulty. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_9049
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