1st Edition
Touchless Fingerprint Biometrics
Introduction
State of the Art
The Performed Research
Results
Structure of this Book
Biometric Systems
Biometric Traits
Applications
Evaluation of Biometric Systems
Research Trends
Summary
Touchless and Less-Constrained Biometrics
Less-Constrained Biometric Systems
Touchless Biometric Traits
Touch-Based Biometric Traits
Summary
Fingerprint Biometrics
Fingerprint Recognition
Characteristics of the Fingerprint
Applications
Analysis of Fingerprint Samples
Touch-Based Fingerprint Recognition
Touchless Fingerprint Biometrics
Summary
Touchless Fingerprint Recognition
Touchless Fingerprint-Recognition Techniques
Methods Based on Two-Dimensional Samples
Methods Based on Three-Dimensional Models
Computation of Synthetic Touchless Fingerprint Samples
Summary
Experimental Results
Methods Based on Single Touchless Images
Methods Based on Three-Dimensional Models
Comparison of Biometric-Recognition Methods
Computation of Synthetic Three-Dimensional Models
Summary
Conclusions and Future Work
Conclusions
Future Work
Biography
Ruggero Donida Labati, PhD, is a postdoctoral research assistant in computer science at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. He was also a visiting researcher at Michigan State University. His main research interests are biometric systems, biometric encryption and privacy-compliant biometric templates, signal and image processing, computational intelligence algorithms, and industrial applications. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is a secretariat of the IEEE Italy Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter. He has over 30 publications in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, and book chapters.
Vincenzo Piuri, PhD, is professor of computer engineering at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, where he has also been director of the Department of Information Technology. His main research interests are biometrics, pattern analysis and recognition, signal and image processing, theory and industrial applications of neural networks, machine learning, intelligent measurement systems, industrial applications, fault tolerance, digital processing architectures, embedded systems, and arithmetic architectures. He is a Fellow of IEEE, the IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities, and IEEE Director. He is editor-in-chief of the IEEE Systems Journal and has been general chair or program chair for over 50 international conferences and workshops.
Fabio Scotti, PhD, is associate professor of computer science at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. His research interests include biometric systems, biometric encryption and privacy-compliant biometric templates, multimodal biometric systems, signal and image processing, computational intelligence algorithms, industrial applications, and high-level system design. He has over 90 publications in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, and book chapters and has been an editor for several books. He is a senior member of IEEE and has chaired or co-chaired a wide variety of conferences, programs, and workshops.
