Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition

by Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio, Anil K. Jain, Salil Prabhakar

Overview

A major new professional reference work on fingerprint security systems and technology from leading international researchers in the field. Handbook provides authoritative and comprehensive coverage of all major topics, concepts, and methods for fingerprint security systems. This unique reference work is an absolutely essential resource for all biometric security professionals, researchers, and systems administrators.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447161066
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	11/22/2014
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2009
Pages:	494
Product dimensions:	7.52(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Dr. Davide Maltoni and Dr. Dario Maio are full Professors in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy. Dr. Anil K. Jain is a University Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, USA. Dr. Jianjiang Feng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, China.

The authors’ extensive list of publications on biometrics include the Springer titles Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Introduction to Biometrics, Handbook of Face Recognition, Handbook of Biometrics, Handbook of Multibiometrics, Human Identification Based on Gait, Biometric Systems, Palmprint Authentication.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Fingerprint sensing.- Fingerprint analysis and representation.- Fingerprint matching.- Fingerprint classification and indexing.- Latent fingerprint recognition.- Fingerprint synthesis.- Fingerprint individuality.- Securing fingerprint systems.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"...a useful reference for all biometric security professionals and researchers. The four coauthors have a distinguished combination of academic and professional experience....Overall, readers will be pleased with the style and substance of this book." -Computing Reviews

"This is a comprehensive reviews of its topic … . The thoroughness of the treatment of biometric methods is not obvious from the title. This feature will make the book particularly valuable in some robotics contexts. … The intended audience includes researchers, practicing engineers, and students … . The book is suggested as a reference book for a graduate course on biometrics. The material is clearly presented … . This will certainly be a standard reference work in its field." (Alex M. Andrew, Robotica, Vol. 22, 2004)

"The book is the first reference on automatic fingerprint recognition and provides an in-depth survey of the fingerprint state-of-the-art, presenting the most recent advances in fingerprints … . is ideally suited to researchers and students in biometrics, pattern recognition, forensics, image processing, and computer vision. In addition, it will be essential to developers of biometric solutions, biometric users … as well as to project managers and system integrators and administrators involved in the analysis, design, and management of finger-print-based biometric systems." (Computer Spectrum, Issue 4, 2003)

From the Publisher

The Barnes & Noble Review
You learned at Sherlock Holmes's knee, and from the television series CSI, that fingerprints are the most successful means for recognizing a person. They are employed in computer systems to identify an authorized user of a particular system, or as a security mechanism that protects a system from unauthorized access. Thus, it is imperative that the fingerprint recognition software works. This excellent book is a gold mine of information on the subject, including the buzz on the latest research and techniques. It also includes a great DVD.

Authors Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio, Anil K. Jain, and Salil Prabhakar begin by introducing you to biometric systems and provide some historical remarks on fingerprints and their adoption in forensic and civilian recognition applications. The authors then survey the existing fingerprint acquisition techniques -- from the traditional "ink technique" to recent optical, capacitive, thermal, and ultrasonic online scanners -- and discuss the factors that determine the quality of a fingerprint image. Next, they provide an in-depth treatment of fingerprint feature extraction, representation, matching, classification and retrieval algorithms. Then the authors delve into three cutting-edge topics: synthetic fingerprint generation, multimodal biometric systems, and fingerprint individuality. Finally, they discuss the design, implementation, and administration of secure fingerprint-based biometric systems.

This outstanding book serves as the first complete reference on fingerprint recognition. If you are into biometric security, either as a developer or an administrator, you will want to familiarize yourself with the concepts behind this technology. This book is the perfect place to start. John R. Vacca

John R. Vacca, the former computer security official (CSO) for NASA's space station program (Freedom), has written nearly 40 books about advanced storage, computer security, and aerospace technology.

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