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Title: Multi Loss Fusion For Matching Smartphone Captured Contactless Finger Images
Traditional fingerprint authentication requires the acquisition of data through touch-based specialized sensors. However, due to many hygienic concerns including the global spread of the COVID virus through contact with a surface has led to an increased interest in contactless fingerprint image acquisition methods. Matching fingerprints acquired using contactless imaging against contact-based images brings up the problem of performing cross modal fingerprint matching for identity verification. In this paper, we propose a cost-effective, highly accurate and secure end-to-end contactless fingerprint recognition solution. The proposed framework first segments the finger region from an image scan of the hand using a mobile phone camera. For this purpose, we developed a cross-platform mobile application for fingerprint enrollment, verification, and authentication keeping security, robustness, and accessibility in mind. The segmented finger images go through fingerprint enhancement to highlight discriminative ridge-based features. A novel deep convolutional network is proposed to learn a representation from the enhanced images based on the optimization of various losses. The proposed algorithms for each stage are evaluated on multiple publicly available contactless databases. Our matching accuracy and the associated security employed in the system establishes the strength of the proposed solution framework.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1822190
NSF-PAR ID:
10360820
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
2021 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS)
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1 to 6
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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