Minutia Cylinder-Code: a new representation and matching technique for fingerprint recognition.
In this paper, we introduce the Minutia Cylinder-Code (MCC): a novel representation based on 3D data structures (called cylinders), built from minutiae distances and angles. The cylinders can be created starting from a subset of the mandatory features (minutiae position and direction) defined by standards like ISO/IEC 19794-2 (2005). Thanks to the cylinder invariance, fixed-length, and bit-oriented coding, some simple but very effective metrics can be defined to compute local similarities and to consolidate them into a global score. Extensive experiments over FVC2006 databases prove the superiority of MCC with respect to three well-known techniques and demonstrate the feasibility of obtaining a very effective (and interoperable) fingerprint recognition implementation for light architectures.
Biometric System Laboratory-DEIS-University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy. raffaele.cappelli@unibo.it
Raffaele
R
Cappelli
Matteo
M
Ferrara
Davide
D
Maltoni
D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D056667:Biometric Identification / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003878:Dermatoglyphics; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*