Modeling the growth of fingerprints improves matching for adolescents

Details Modeling the growth of fingerprints improves matching for adolescents Modeling the growth of fingerprints improves matching for adolescents

2010-08-06

arxiv.org/abs/1008.1150v1

Computer Science

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Scientific paper

10.1109/TIFS.2011.2143406

We study the effect of growth on the fingerprints of adolescents, based on which we suggest a simple method to adjust for growth when trying to recover a juvenile's fingerprint in a database years later. Based on longitudinal data sets in juveniles' criminal records, we show that growth essentially leads to an isotropic rescaling, so that we can use the strong correlation between growth in stature and limbs to model the growth of fingerprints proportional to stature growth as documented in growth charts. The proposed rescaling leads to a 72% reduction of the distances between corresponding minutiae for the data set analyzed. These findings were corroborated by several verification tests. In an identification test on a database containing 3.25 million right index fingers at the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany, the identification error rate of 20.8% was reduced to 2.1% by rescaling. The presented method is of striking simplicity and can easily be integrated into existing automated fingerprint identification systems.

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