We present a novel measure of fingerprint image quality, which can be used to estimate fingerprint match performance. This means presenting the matcher with good quality fingerprint images will result in high matcher performance, and vice versa, the matcher will perform poorly for poor quality fingerprints. We discuss the implementation of our fingerprint image quality metric and we present the results of testing it on 280 different combinations of fingerprint image data and fingerprint matcher systems. We found that the metric predicts matcher performance for all systems and datasets. Our definition of quality can be applied to other biometric modalities and upon proper feature extraction can be used to assess quality of any mode of biometric samples.


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    Title :

    A novel approach to fingerprint image quality


    Contributors:
    Tabassi, E. (author) / Wilson, C.L. (author)


    Publication date :

    2005-01-01


    Size :

    168763 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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