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Nowadays fingerprint verification system is the most widespread and accepted biometric technology that explores various features of the human fingers for this purpose. In general, every normal person has 10 fingers with different size. Although it is claimed that recognition performance with little fingers can be less accurate compared to other finger types, to our best knowledge, this has not been investigated yet. This paper presents our study on the topic of influence of the finger type into fingerprint recognition performance. For analysis we employ two fingerprint verification software packages (one public and one commercial). We conduct test on GUC100 multi sensor fingerprint database which contains fingerprint images of all 10 fingers from 100 subjects. Our analysis indeed confirms that performance with small fingers is less accurate than performance with the others fingers of the hand. It also appears that best performance is being obtained with thumb or index fingers. For example, performance deterioration from the best finger (i.e. index or thumb) to the worst fingers (i.e. small ones) can be in the range of 184%-1352%.
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Gafurov, D., Bours, P., Yang, B., Busch, C. (2010). Impact of Finger Type in Fingerprint Authentication. In: Kim, Th., Fang, Wc., Khan, M.K., Arnett, K.P., Kang, Hj., Ślęzak, D. (eds) Security Technology, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 122. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17610-4_1
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