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Fingerprint Sample Synthesis

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Artificial fingerprints; Synthetic fingerprint generation; Synthetic fingerprints

Definition

Fingerprint sample synthesis is the generation of images similar to human’s fingerprints through parametric models that simulate the main characteristics of such biometric data and their modes of variation. The image synthesis is typically performed by a computer program that, starting from some input parameters, executes a sequence of algorithmic steps that finally produce a synthetic fingerprint image.

Introduction

With the increasing adoption of fingerprint recognition systems, driven by their very appealing accuracy/cost trade-off, methodical and accurate performance evaluations of fingerprint recognition algorithms are needed. Unfortunately, this requires large databases of fingerprints, due to the very small error rates that have to be estimated. For instance, according to [17], in order to support a claim of FMR less than 1/10,000 (the requirement for verification applications...

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  1. Biometric System Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI), University of Bologna, via Sacchi 3, 47023, Cesena, Italy

    Raffaele Cappelli Dr.

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  1. Center Biometrics Research & Security Nat'l. Lab of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li

  2. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

    Anil K. Jain

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Cappelli, R. (2014). Fingerprint Sample Synthesis. In: Li, S., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27733-7_3-3

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