Novel Approach For Precise Fingerprint Detection

Fingerprint recognition schemas are widely used in our daily life, such as Door Security, Identification, and Phone Verification. However, the existing problem is that fingerprint recognition systems are easily tricked by fake fingerprints for collaboration. Therefore, designing a fingerprint liveness detection module in fingerprint recognition systems is necessary. To solve the above problem and discriminate true fingerprint from fake ones, a novel software-based liveness detection approach using uniform local binary pattern (ULBP) in spatial pyramid is applied to recognize fingerprint liveness in this paper. Firstly, preprocessing operation for each fingerprint is necessary. Then, to solve image rotation and scale invariance, three-layer spatial pyramids of fingerprints are introduced in this paper. Next, texture information for three layers spatial pyramids is described by using uniform local binary pattern to extract features of given fingerprints. The accuracy of our proposed method has been compared with several state-of-the-art methods in fingerprint liveness detection. Experiments based on standard databases, taken from Liveness Detection Competition 2013 composed of four different fingerprint sensors, have been carried out. Finally, classifier model based on extracted features is trained using SVM classifier. Experimental results present that our proposed method can achieve high recognition accuracy compared with other methods.

Authentication is a fundamental component of human interaction with computers. Traditional means of authentication, primarily password and personal identification numbers (PINs), have until recently dominated computing, and are likely to remain essential for the years to come. Over the years, passwords are kept simple to avoid them being easily forgotten. This has subjected them to higher vulnerability to much compromise by unauthorized persons. Thus, computers are forced to manage more and more passwords which imply that the likelihood of password being forgotten increases. Hence, biometrics is becoming more convenient and distinctly more precise than traditional methods such as passwords and PINs. Biometrics link the event to a particular individual, requires nothing to remember or carry, provides positive confirmation by verifying individuals are who they claim to be, and is becoming an inexpensive solution. This research work aims to evaluate fingerprint recognition technology for a biometric security system using the implementation at the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) as a case study; to reveal the enormous benefits of using or deploying biometrics which may include the increased security, increased convenience, reduce fraud, or delivery of enhanced services. An evaluation of the said system as deployed in COREN was advanced by the use of quantitative method which design administered a survey instrument in the form of a questionnaire among 20 employees of Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN). Therefore, upon analyzing the responses from the field work conducted, it is evident that fingerprint recognition system is secured due to fingerprints uniqueness. The outcome of the system suggests that fingerprints, sensors and papillary line provide enough entropy on biometric security.

Fingerprint is the most hopeful biometric authentication that can specifically identify a person from their exclusive features. In the proposed approach, a novel software-based classification method is presented to classify between fake and real fingerprint. The intention of the proposed system is to improve the security of biometric identification system. The statistical techniques are good for micro features but not well for macro. In this paper, we present a novel combination of local Haralick micro texture features with macro features derived from neighbourhood gray-tone difference matrix (NGTDM) to generate an effective feature vector. Combined extracted features of training and testing images are passed to support vector machine for discriminating live and fake fingerprints. The proposed approach is experimented and validated on ATVS dataset and LivDet2011 dataset. The proposed approach has achieved good accuracy and less error rate in comparison with previously studied techniques.

This paper deals with the fingerprint classification and recognition system, which consists of extracting and matching of minutiae from the input image. The necessity for security in fields such as improving airport security, strengthening the national borders, in travel documents, in preventing ID theft has brought the need to develop an able and efficient method for correct classification of personnel authentication. Fingerprints are the first biometric science used widely for the validation and verifications of entry into specific task, which is more reliable, efficient and accurate. Despite finger print recognition being reliable it has disadvantages such as very low recognition rate, low accuracy rate, total time of recovery and data insufficiency. To address above problem a novel data mining technique, neuro nearest neighbour based fingerprint classification and recognition, is introduced which boosts the classification rate. The proposed method consists of different stages such as image enhancement, line detector based feature extraction, neural network classification using Learning vector quantization and Back propagation networks. The proposed system is trained and tested on Fingerprint Database obtained from the University of Bologna Italy, which consists of 900 samples. The exact image is recognized precisely from the classified database rather than the original set of database using Crisp K-nearest neighbour algorithm that increases recognition accuracy and reduction in time

Fingerprint recognition systems are susceptible to artificial spoof fingerprint attacks, like molds manufactured from polymer, gelatin or Play-Doh. Presentation attack is an open issue for fingerprint recognition systems. In a presentation attack, synthetic fingerprint which is reproduced from a real user is submitted for authentication. Different sensors are used to capture the live and fake fingerprint images. A liveness detection system has been designed to defeat different classes of spoof attacks by differentiating the features of live and fake fingerprint images. In the past few years, many hardware- and software-based approaches are suggested by researchers. However, the issues still remain challenging in terms of robustness, effectiveness and efficiency. In this paper, we explore all kinds of software-based solution to differentiate between real and fake fingerprints and present a comprehensive survey of efforts in the past to address this problem.

An evaluation of fake fingerprint databases utilizing SVM classification

Individual recognition systems with high-speed and high-accuracy have been recently demanded in the automatic logging into a PC, the immigration at the airport, the access control and diligence & indolence management in an office, and so on. Biometric authentication is now being regarded as the most valid method because of the receptivity, individuality and invariability of biometric identifiers. Various types of the individual recognition systems based on biometrics have been studied and partially realized. Fingerprints, faces, hand geometry, irises, vein patterns, gait, signatures, etc., are known as biometric identifiers. In particular, the fingerprint recognition system has been widely used because of its high reliability and reasonable price (Maltoni et al., 2003a; Jain et al., 2010). The fingerprint recognition methods can be classified into the following three types: (i) the minutiae-based, (ii) the frequency-based and (iii) the image-based methods. The minutiae-based method is mainly being used in the practical fingerprint recognition system. For example, a memetic fingerprint matching algorithm has been recently proposed to identify the optimal or near optimal global matching between two minutiae sets (Sheng et al., 2007). A matching technique for fingerprint recognition using the Minutia CylinderCode (MCC), which is based on 3D data structures built from minutiae distances and angles, has also been made a proposal (Cappelli et al., 2010) to exclude the drawbacks in the fingerprint authentication using local minutiae structures. Moreover, a fingerprint verification using spectral minutiae representations has been suggested to overcome translation, rotation and scaling which are the drawbacks of minutiae-based algorithms (Xu et al., 2009a, 2009b). The frequency-based method, such as the frequency analysis method, is also being used in the practical fingerprint recognition system in order to secretly hide the original fingerprint information (Takeuchi et al., 2007). Recently, a fingerprint recognition method based on melfrequency cepstral coefficients and polynomial shape coefficients has been proposed because of the robustness to noise and the insensivity to translation (Hashad et al., 2010). The image-based method has been being studied to improve the accuracy in the fingerprint recognition. For example, an enhanced image-based algorithm for fingerprint verification based on invariant moment features has been recently proposed to improve matching accuracy and processing speed (Yang & Park, 2008a, 2008b). A novel image-based fingerprint matcher based on the minutiae alignment has also been made a proposal to improve the verification performance (Nanni & Lumini, 2009).

ABSTRACTRecent advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have pushed education systems into the online paradigm. Although fingerprint recognition has received considerable attention from researchers, the concept of creating online or distance education systems for fingerprint recognition systems is a valid problem that requires further investigation. This article addresses the problem and presents a web platform for online education of a fingerprint recognition system. This study focused on the technical design and implementation of the web platform solely as a proof of concept to illustrate the possibility of creating distance education for fingerprint recognition. The developed platform offers students a way to gain knowledge about the full range of fingerprint recognition system technology. The significance of using a web platform stems from the need to supplement students’ theoretical knowledge with practical hands-on experience with information security in general and with fingerprint recognition in particular. Demonstrations such as fingerprint image enhancement and fingerprint feature extraction are included in the current platform prototype. Plots of fingerprint recognition performance curves such as false match rate (FMR) and false non-match rate (FNMR) as functions of the matching threshold curve, the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, and the detection error trade-off (DET) curve are plotted as part of the platform. From a technical viewpoint, the platform was successfully implemented; however, its educational impact needs further evaluation.

With the growing use of biometric authentication systems in the past years, spoof fingerprint detection has become increasingly important. In this work, we implement and evaluate two different feature extraction techniques for software-based fingerprint liveness detection: Convolutional Networks with random weights and Local Binary Patterns. Both techniques were used in conjunction with a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. Dataset Augmentation was used to increase classifier's performance and a variety of preprocessing operations were tested, such as frequency filtering, contrast equalization, and region of interest filtering. The experiments were made on the datasets used in The Liveness Detection Competition of years 2009, 2011 and 2013, which comprise almost 50,000 real and fake fingerprints' images. Our best method achieves an overall rate of 95.2% of correctly classified samples - an improvement of 35% in test error when compared with the best previously published results.

The most established technique for the identification at biometric access control systems is the human fingerprint. While every human fingerprint is unique, fingerprints can be faked very easily by using thin layer fakes. Because commercial fingerprint scanners use only a two-dimensional image acquisition of the finger surface, they can only hardly differentiate between real fingerprints and fingerprint fakes applied on thin layer materials. A Swept Source OCT system with an A-line rate of 20 kHz and a lateral and axial resolution of approximately 13 μm, a centre wavelength of 1320 nm and a band width of 120 nm (FWHM) was used to acquire fingerprints and finger tips with overlying fakes. Three-dimensional volume stacks with dimensions of 4.5 mm x 4 mm x 2 mm were acquired. The layering arrangement of the imaged finger tips and faked finger tips was analyzed and subsequently classified into real and faked fingerprints. Additionally, sweat gland ducts were detected and consulted for the classification. The manual classification between real fingerprints and faked fingerprints results in almost 100 % correctness. The outer as well as the internal fingerprint can be recognized in all real human fingers, whereby this was not possible in the image stacks of the faked fingerprints. Furthermore, in all image stacks of real human fingers the sweat gland ducts were detected. The number of sweat gland ducts differs between the test persons. The typical helix shape of the ducts was observed. In contrast, in images of faked fingerprints we observe abnormal layer arrangements and no sweat gland ducts connecting the papillae of the outer fingerprint and the internal fingerprint. We demonstrated that OCT is a very useful tool to enhance the performance of biometric control systems concerning attacks by thin layer fingerprint fakes.

최근 보안 시스템 중에서 지문인식을 이용한 보안 시스템은 다른 보안 시스템에 비해 유일성과 편의성 등의 장점을 가짐으로써 많은 사람들이 관심을 갖는 분야이다. 지문인식 시스템에 있어서 가장 중요한 사항은 실제 지문과 영상을 통해 얻어진 지문간의 정합에서의 정확성과 지문 인식을 위해 사용하는 영상처리 알고리즘들을 신속하게 처리하는 데 있다. 기존의 지문인식 시스템은 특징 추출을 위해 사용하는 알고리즘들의 처리 시간을 줄이기 위해 전체 처리과정 중 일부 과정들을 생략함으로써 처리시간을 단축한다. 하지만 이 방식은 처리시간을 단축시킬 수 있는 반면 특징 추출에 대한 정확도가 떨어진다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 특징 추출에 대한 정확도를 높이기 위해 전체 처리 과정을 사용하면서 동시에 처리시간도 단축시킬 수 있는 다중 접근 메모리 시스템을 이용한 지문인식 특징 추출 알고리즘을 구현하였고, 구현된 시스템을 사용하였을때 다중접근 메모리 시스템과 시리얼 프로세서의 결과에 대해 correlation을 이용한 검증을 통해 제안된 방법의 신뢰도를 확인하였으며, 시리얼 프로세서에 비해 MAMS-PP64를 이용한 방법은 수행시간에서 약 1.56배 향상되었음을 확인하였다. Among the recent security systems, security system with fingerprint recognition gets many people's interests through the strengths such as exclusiveness, convenience, etc, in comparison with other security systems. The most important matters for fingerprint recognition system are reliability of matching between the fingerprint in database and user's fingerprint and rapid process of image processing algorithms used for fingerprint recognition. The existing fingerprint recognition system reduces the processing time by removing some processes in the feature extraction algorithms but has weakness of a reliability. This paper realizes the fingerprint recognition algorithm using MAMS(Multi-Access Memory System) for both the rapid processing time and the reliability in feature extraction and matching accuracy. Reliability of this process is verified by the correlation between serial processor's results and MAMS-PP64's results. The performance of the method using MAMS-PP64 is 1.56 times faster than compared serial processor.

A facial recognition system is a technology capable of identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source. There are multiple methods in which facial recognition systems work, but in general, they work by comparing selected facial features from the given image with faces within a database. It is also described as a Biometric Artificial Intelligence-based application that can uniquely identify a person by analyzing patterns based on the person's facial textures and shape. While initially a form of computer application, it has seen wider uses in recent times on mobile platforms and in other forms of technology, such as robotics. It is typically used as access control in security systems and can be compared to other biometrics such as fingerprint or eye iris recognition systems. Although the accuracy of facial recognition system as biometric technology is lower than iris recognition and fingerprint recognition, it is widely adopted due to its contactless and non-invasive process. Recently, it has also become popular as a commercial identification and marketing tool. Other applications include advanced human-computer interaction, video surveillance, automatic indexing of images and video database, among others. The use of facial recognition has recently become a very debatable subject and has been criticized more and more because it was considered an unethical tool used to spy on the public. The reason for such criticism is, however, largely due to the lack of information and regulation of this technology. Used proportionally and responsibly, facial recognition can and should be beneficial. It has the capacity to do much more to increase security in the future-from street crime to airport security. Armed war crime has dominated UK titles throughout the year. Recent statistics indicate that the number of people who benefited from the emergency assistance due to armed attacks increased by almost 40% compared to the two years ago, while the number of children under 18 years of age with stab wounds is increasing by 86 % in only four years. Face recognition has become a normal activity in many airports around the world. Many people today have a so-called biometric passport that allows them to go faster to the gate without having to be controlled. The facial recognition used in this way has significantly reduced waiting times for passport control but also has the ability to increase security in and around airports. Face recognition thus allows officers to identify an individual more quickly and accurately than the human eye. While some critics may worry about technology-related confidentiality issues, airports have shown that the use of facial recognition has improved security as well as speeding up processes such as check-in and in the future, even procedures boarding. When used correctly and proportionally, facial recognition can help protect the public and improve national security on multiple fronts. Similarly, advanced technology can recognize a person seen on CCTV security systems at the crime scene, justifying a person's stop and search. The ability to check in real time whether a person is on the list of criminal investigations adds an added advantage to the decision-making process before stopping and searching, thus lowering the probability of discrimination.

Fingerprint identification system is widely used in various areas. However, a fake fingerprint made from a mold can cheat the identification systems easily. It reduces the reliability of the identification system. Recently, fingerprint liveness detection methods are proposed to filter fake fingerprints before the verification process. Although some liveness detection methods have satisfying performance, to best our knowledge, there is no investigation on the fingerprint images with out-of-focus blur which is a common scenario, especially for the touchless sensors. In this paper, we simulate out-of-focus blur on the fingerprint images and study their influence on the performance of state-of-art liveness detection methods. The resultindicates that the accuracy on classifying the fake fingerprint images with out-of-focus blur drops significantly, which may lead to secure problems.

The authentication via accelerometer-based biometric gait recognition offers a user-friendly alternative to common authentication methods on smartphones. It has the great advantage that the authentication can be performed without user interaction. When the user is walking, his walk-pattern can be extracted from the accelerations measured using the integrated sensors of the smartphone. This pattern can be used for authentication. A study showed that users often deactivate the authentication methods of their mobile devices because they consume too much time. Because all steps necessary to perform biometric gait recognition can be executed in the background, no user interaction is necessary for the presented technique. Performing a continuous authentication while the user is walking, an up-to-date authentication result is available at any point in time. During log-in, no calculations are necessary anymore, hence there is no delay. Only in cases where the user is not walking, an alternative authentication method has to be used. This is a great benefit for the user because he has the advantages of a phone which is protected by authentication but without the disadvantages common methods impose. This high user-friendliness is likely to increase the number of smartphones for which the screen-lock is linked with an authentication. Therefore, a higher security of the data stored in smartphones can be achieved. A misuse of the stored information by an unauthorized user can be prevented. Due to the growing distribution of powerful smartphones, the number of available applications is increasing as well. These applications result in a growing amount of data stored on the devices, which make the protection of the device necessary. These data comprise e.g. addresses, appointments or GPS-information. Additionally, some applications, e.g. of e-mail-providers or social networks, require the user to authenticate himself. Often these credentials are stored by the user on the phone, such that it is not necessary to enter them each time. In case an unauthorized person has access to such a phone he can use these services without restrictions and therefore substantially harm the user. The objective of this thesis was to develop methods for accelerometer-based biometric gait recognition which achieve sufficient low error rates, as well as to demonstrate that their computational effort is low and allows for an execution on current smartphones. Because the basis of existing methods is the extraction of gait cycles (i.e. two steps) from the accelerometer data, a cycle-based method was developed and evaluated in a scenario test. This method uses raw data of the gait cycles as feature vectors and accomplishes the classification using distance functions. In addition, a further approach was selected, which does not need the time-costly and error-prone gait cycle extraction. Instead, it is using overlapping segments of a fixed time length. Several features are extracted from these segments and combined to feature vectors. Machine learning algorithms are used for classification. A benchmark of the approaches on a challenging database showed that these methods yield low equal error rates between 6% and 7% and are outperforming the cycle-based methods. These error rates were achieved under the realistic conditions that training and probe data are not collected on the same day. It was shown that five minutes of gait data are sufficient to thoroughly train the models. It should be regarded that the training data contain the different walking velocities at which the user should be recognized later on. To obtain low false rejection rates, the classification should be based on around three minutes walk data. Two of the developed methods were implemented on a smartphone. It was shown that both methods are able to perform the classification fast enough to allow for an authentication without delay for the user.

Typical fingerprint recognition systems are comprised of a spoof detection module and a subsequent recognition module, running one after the other. In this study, we reformulate the workings of a typical fingerprint recognition system. We show that both spoof detection and fingerprint recognition are correlated tasks, and therefore, rather than performing these two tasks separately, a joint model capable of performing both spoof detection and matching simultaneously can be used without compromising the accuracy of either task. We demonstrate the capability of our joint model to obtain an authentication accuracy (1:1 matching) of TAR \(=\) 100% @ FAR \(=\) 0.1% on the FVC 2006 DB2A dataset while achieving a spoof detection ACE of 1.44% on the LivDet 2015 dataset, both maintaining the performance of stand-alone methods. In practice, this reduces the time and memory requirements of the fingerprint recognition system by 50 and 40%, respectively; a significant advantage for recognition systems running on resource constrained devices and communication channels.