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Fingerprint Image Quality

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Encyclopedia of Biometrics

Synonyms

Fingerprint Image Quality Measure; Fingerprint Image Quality Assessment

Definition

The intrinsic characteristic of a biometric signal may be used to determine its suitability for further processing by the biometric system or assess its conformance to preestablished standards. The quality of a biometric signal is a numerical value (or a vector) that measures this intrinsic attribute. Quality score is a quantitative expression of the utility, or predicted performance of a biometric sample in a comparison environment. This means that finger image quality scores should correlate to the observed false match and false nonmatch rates of the samples.

Introduction

With an increase in the need for reliable identity authentication, biometric recognition systems have been increasingly deployed in several different applications: government applications such as national ID card, border control, and commercial applications, such as physical access control, e-commerce, or mobile phone. Among...

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  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

    Elham Tabassi & Patrick Grother

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  1. Elham Tabassi
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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security, Research & National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li

  2. Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Anil K. Jain

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Tabassi, E., Grother, P. (2015). Fingerprint Image Quality. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_52

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