2009 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Direct Pore Matching for Fingerprint Recognition
verfasst von : Qijun Zhao, Lei Zhang, David Zhang, Nan Luo
Erschienen in: Advances in Biometrics
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Sweat pores on fingerprints have proven to be useful features for personal identification. Several methods have been proposed for pore matching. The state-of-the-art method first matches minutiae on the fingerprints and then matches the pores based on the minutia matching results. A problem of such minutia-based pore matching method is that the pore matching is dependent on the minutia matching. Such dependency limits the pore matching performance and impairs the effectiveness of the fusion of minutia and pore match scores. In this paper, we propose a novel direct approach for matching fingerprint pores. It first determines the correspondences between pores based on their local features. It then uses the RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus) algorithm to refine the pore correspondences obtained in the first step. A similarity score is finally calculated based on the pore matching results. The proposed pore matching method successfully avoids the dependency of pore matching on minutia matching results. Experiments have shown that the fingerprint recognition accuracy can be greatly improved by using the method proposed in this paper.