Fingerprint image-quality estimation and its application to multialgorithm verification

doi:10.1109/TIFS.2008.920725

2008-06-01

Alonso-Fernandez, Fernando

Javier Ortega-García

Joaquín González-Rodríguez

DOI：10.1109/TIFS.2008.920725

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Signal-quality awareness has been found to increase recognition rates and to support decisions in multisensor environments significantly. Nevertheless, automatic quality assessment is still an open issue. Here, we study the orientation tensor of fingerprint images to quantify signal impairments, such as noise, lack of structure, blur, with the help of symmetry descriptors. A strongly reduced reference is especially favorable in biometrics, but less information is not sufficient for the approach. This is also supported by numerous experiments involving a simpler quality estimator, a trained method (NFIQ), as well as the human perception of fingerprint quality on several public databases. Furthermore, quality measurements are extensively reused to adapt fusion parameters in a monomodal multialgorithm fingerprint recognition environment. In this study, several trained and nontrained score-level fusion schemes are investigated. A Bayes-based strategy for incorporating experts' past performances and current quality conditions, a novel cascaded scheme for computational efficiency, besides simple fusion rules, is presented. The quantitative results favor quality awareness under all aspects, boosting recognition rates and fusing differently skilled experts efficiently as well as effectively (by training).

Keyword:

adaptive fusion

Bayesian statistics

cascaded fusion

fingerprint

monomodal fusion

quality assessment

structure tensor

symmetry features

training