Floating search methods in feature selection
Pattern Recognition Letters
R-trees: a dynamic index structure for spatial searching
SIGMOD '84 Proceedings of the 1984 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Multiresolution Gray-Scale and Rotation Invariant Texture Classification with Local Binary Patterns
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Fingerprint Indexing Based on Novel Features of Minutiae Triplets
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
FVC2002: Second Fingerprint Verification Competition
ICPR '02 Proceedings of the 16 th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02) Volume 3 - Volume 3
Fingerprint Matching Using an Orientation-Based Minutia Descriptor
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection
CVPR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) - Volume 1 - Volume 01
ICPR '06 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Volume 04
An improved BioHashing for human authentication
Pattern Recognition
Fingerprint matching from minutiae texture maps
Pattern Recognition
Efficient fingerprint search based on database clustering
Pattern Recognition
A hybrid wavelet-based fingerprint matcher
Pattern Recognition
Combining minutiae descriptors for fingerprint matching
Pattern Recognition
Wavelet-based fingerprint image retrieval
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition
Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition
An automated palmprint recognition system
Image and Vision Computing
AUC: a better measure than accuracy in comparing learning algorithms
AI'03 Proceedings of the 16th Canadian society for computational studies of intelligence conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
Fingerprint Image Reconstruction from Standard Templates
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Filterbank-based fingerprint matching
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Minutiae and modified Biocode fusion for fingerprint-based key generation
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Cancelable fingerprint templates using minutiae-based bit-strings
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Pair-polar coordinate-based cancelable fingerprint templates
Pattern Recognition
Fingerprint verification using rotation invariant feature codes
ICIAR'11 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Image analysis and recognition - Volume Part II
Fingerprint indexing with bad quality areas
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Indexing and retrieving in fingerprint databases under structural distortions
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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This paper focuses on the use of image-based techniques in fingerprint verification. A detailed review of the existing literature is provided by classifying existing methods on the basis of their alignment procedure and discussing the most salient approaches and their pros and cons. Even if, at present, the image-based techniques do not gain performance comparable with that obtained by the best minutiae-based approaches, several good reasons can be listed to support the research on image-based approaches: the possibility of using additional features in combination with minutiae to improve verification performance, the availability of a fixed length feature vector which makes these approaches suitable to be indexed, to be coupled with a learning system or to be combined with tokenised random number in a two factor authentication system (Biohashing). In this work we compare several texture-based descriptors for fingerprints and propose a novel image-based fingerprint matcher based on the minutiae alignment. In this approach, the feature extraction is performed locally on a decomposition of the fingerprint in several overlapping sub-windows considering the following measures: Gabor filters descriptors, invariant local binary patterns and histogram of gradients. Moreover, we propose to perform a supervised selection of a small subset of descriptors, in order to reduce the dimensionality of the feature set and discarding the less discriminative features. Extensive experiments conducted over the four FVC2002 fingerprint databases using a blind testing protocol show that the proposed system dramatically outperforms the other image-based fingerprint matchers proposed in the literature. Moreover, a further experiment conducted on a set of images reconstructed from ISO templates show that, differently to the minutiae-based approaches, our image-based matcher cannot be faked with the sole knowledge of the minutiae position and orientation, at least the original orientation image is required in order have a chance of performing a successful attack.