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An Experimental Study on Measuring Image Quality of Infant Fingerprints

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Abstract

The performance of fingerprint recognition algorithms depends on quality of input fingerprint images. This dependency becomes more apparent for infant fingerprints that are smaller than adult fingerprints. This paper studies various measurements of fingerprint images, and compares the image qualities between infant and adult fingerprints. Three quality measures for fingerprint images are implemented, and applied to infant and adult fingerprint images. The results can be utilized for ensuring better performance of fingerprint recognition systems against infant fingerprints.

This work was supported in part by the Biometrics Engineering Research Center, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute.

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  1. Graduate School of Information Technology & Telecommunication, Korea Biometrics Engineering Research Center, INHA University, 253 Yonghyun-dong, Nam-ku, Incheon

    Sungwook Joun & Hakil Kim

  2. Biometrics Technology Research Team, Information Security Research Division, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, 161 Gajeong-Dong, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, 305-350, Korea

    Yongwha Chung & Dosung Ahn

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  1. Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, Parks Road, OXI 3QD, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Vasile Palade

  2. Centre for SMART Systems, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Adelaide, Australia

    Lakhmi Jain

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Joun, S., Kim, H., Chung, Y., Ahn, D. (2003). An Experimental Study on Measuring Image Quality of Infant Fingerprints. In: Palade, V., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2774. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45226-3_171

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