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http://dx.doi.org/10.13089/JKIISC.2007.17.2.29

Scoring Method of Fingerprint Image Quality using Classified Block-level Characteristics  

Moon, Ji-Hyun (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Inha University)
Kim, Hak-Il (School of Information and Communication Engineering, Inha University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology / v.17, no.2, 2007 , pp. 29-40 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to propose a method for scoring the quality of a fingerprint image using the local information derived from the fingerprint image. In previous works for the quality measuring, most of the quality scores are related to the performance of a matching algorithm, and this makes the quality result more subjective. The quality score of a fingerprint image proposed in this work is sensor-independent, source-independent and matcher-independent one, and this concept of fingerprint sample quality results in effective improvement of the system performance. In this research, a new definition of fingerprint image quality and a new method for measuring the quality are proposed. For the experiments, several sub-databases from FVCs are used and the proposed method showed reasonable results for the test database. The proposed method can be used in various systems for the numerous purposes since the quality scores generated by the proposed method are based on the idea that the quality of fingerprint should be sensor-independent, source-independent and matcher-independent.
Keywords
Quality score of fingerprint image; Multiple measures; Classification; Sensor-independent; Matcher-independent;
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