Modeling the growth of fingerprints improves matching for adolescents

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 6, Issue 3 PART 2, 2011, Pages 1165-1169

  Gottschlich, Carsten ^a   Hotz, Thomas ^a   Lorenz, Robert ^b   Bernhardt, Stefanie ^b   Hantschel, Michael ^b   Munk, Axel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Bundeskriminalamt   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS); biometrics; finger growth; fingerprint recognition; matching; shape analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM; FINGER GROWTH; FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION; MATCHING; SHAPE ANALYSIS;

BIOMETRICS; CRIME; ERRORS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 80051745535     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2011.2143406     Document Type: Article

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