Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition

by Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio, Anil K. Jain, Jianjiang Feng

Overview

With their distinctiveness and stability over time, fingerprints continue to be the most widely used anatomical characteristic in systems that automatically recognize a person's identity.

This fully updated third edition provides in-depth coverage of the state-of-the-art in fingerprint recognition readers, feature extraction, and matching algorithms and applications. Deep learning (resurgence beginning around 2012) has been a game changer for artificial intelligence and, in particular, computer vision and biometrics. Performance improvements (both recognition accuracy and speed) for most biometric modalities can be attributed to the use of deep neural networks along with availability of large training sets and powerful hardware. Fingerprint recognition has also been approached by deep learning, resulting in effective and efficient methods for automated recognition and for learning robust fixed-length representations. However, the tiny ridge details in fingerprints known as minutiae are still competitive with the powerful representations learned by huge neural networks trained on big data.

Features & Benefits:

• Reflects the progress made in automated techniques for fingerprint recognition over the past five decades
• Reviews the evolution of sensing technology: from bulky optical devices to in-display readers in smartphones
• Dedicates an entire new chapter to latent fingerprint recognition, which is nowadays feasible in “lights-out” mode
• Introduces classical and learning-based techniques for local orientation extraction, enhancement, and minutiae detection
• Provides an updated review of presentation-attack-detection techniques and their performance evaluation
• Discusses the evolution of minutiae matching from rich local descriptors to Minutiae Cylinder Code
• Presents the development of feature-based matching: from FingerCode to handcrafted textural features to deep features
• Reviews fingerprint synthesis, including recent Generative Adversarial Networks

The revised edition of this must-read reference, written by leading international researchers, covers all critical aspects of fingerprint security system design and technology. It is an essential resource for all security and biometrics professionals, researchers, practitioners, developers, and systems administrators, and can serve as an easy-to-read reference for an undergraduate or graduate course on biometrics.

Davide Maltoni is full professor in the Department of Computer Science (DISI) at the University of Bologna, where he also co-directs the Biometrics Systems Laboratory (BioLab).
Dario Maio is full professor in the DISI and a co-director of the BioLab.
Anil K. Jain is university distinguished professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. Jianjiang Feng is associate professor in the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030836245
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	07/04/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	118 MB
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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

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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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)

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