Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition

by Anil K. Jain

With their proven individuality and stability over time, fingerprints continue to be the most widely used physiological characteristic in systems that automatically recognize a person's identity. This handbook on automatic fingerprint recognition provides in-depth coverage of the most recent advances and practices. Readers will find comprehensive and authoritative coverage of all the major concepts, topics, and security methods associated with fingerprint recognition systems. Coverage sensing, feature extraction and matching, synthetic fingerprint image generation, indexing, and multimodal systems.Features & Covers the latest research in fingerprint-based recognition algorithms and techniques* Provides introductory material on all components and modules of a fingerprint recognition system *Examines design of secure fingerprint systems* Contains helpful chapter overviews and summaries and consistent notation, for ease of use and accessibility* Includes a DVD containing both the FVC2002 and FVC2000 fingerprint databases (full versions) and a demo version of SFinGe software (for synthetic fingerprint image generation)* Integrates numerous supporting graphs, tables, charts, and performance data* Supplies an extensive annotated bibliography of citations and literature sources.This comprehensive and authoritative reference, written by leading international researchers, covers all critical aspects of fingerprint security systems and technology. It is an absolutely essential resource for all biometric security professionals, researchers, practitioners, developers, and systems administrators.About the AuthorsDavide Maltoni is associate professor in the Dept. of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS) at the University of Bologna, where he also co-directs the Biometrics Systems Laboratory (BioLab).Dario Maio is professor in the University of BolognaAs DEIS, chair of Cesena campus and director of the BioLab.Anil K. Jain is university-distinguished professor in the department of computer science and engineering at Michigan State University. He is a fellow of the IEEE and IAPR and holds six patents on algorithms for fingerprint recognition.Salil Prabhakar leads the algorithms research group at DigitalPersona Inc., where he works on fingerprint-based biometric solutions.

348 pages, Hardcover

First published May 20, 2003

Reviews

[Tpinetz · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you want to work with fingerprints in a profound way, I can easily recommend this book. The part about representing fingerprints is must read literature for anyone trying to do biometric research. I wrote my master thesis on minutiae extraction and most of my knowledge about fingerprints is from this book.

The only problem I have with this book that is slowly getting older and many of the new techniques involving deep learning for example are not included in this book, because they did not exist at the time.