Case study of 3D fingerprints applications

Feng Liu, Jinrong Liang, Linlin Shen, Meng Yang, David Zhang, Zhihui Lai

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Abstract

Human fingers are 3D objects. More information will be provided if three dimensional (3D) fingerprints are available compared with two dimensional (2D) fingerprints. Thus, this paper firstly collected 3D finger point cloud data by Structured-light Illumination method. Additional features from 3D fingerprint images are then studied and extracted. The applications of these features are finally discussed. A series of experiments are conducted to demonstrate the helpfulness of 3D information to fingerprint recognition. Results show that a quick alignment can be easily implemented under the guidance of 3D finger shape feature even though this feature does not work for fingerprint recognition directly. The newly defined distinctive3D shape ridge feature can be used for personal authentication with Equal Error Rate (EER) of ∼8.3%. Also, it is helpful to remove false core point. Furthermore, a promising of EER ∼1.3% is realized by combining this feature with 2D features for fingerprint recognition which indicates the prospect of 3D fingerprint recognition.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere0175261
JournalPLoS ONE
Volume12
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2017
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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