Abstract
Automatic fingerprint identification systems (AFIS) are among the most used people identification solutions. As the size of fingerprint databases is continuously growing, studying fingerprint indexing mechanisms is desirable to facilitate the search process in a large-scale database. This work presents a method for fingerprint indexing, which uses both exact and approximation methods of nearest neighbors (ANNs), which are very efficient in terms of runtime, even if they sacrifice a little accuracy by presenting approximate solutions. In the presented approach, searches with ANN methods are made from deep embedding vectors extracted from image databases using a convolutional neural network (CNN). In this work, a CNN ResNet18 was used to extract the deep feature embeddings vectors, and the vectors vary in size between 64, 96, and 128. The ANNs methods tested for the query step were ANNOY, NGT, HNSW, and Nanoflann. The results were quite promising when using the FVC fingerprint databases (2000, 2002, and 2004), once we reached 100% hits in the searches with a penetration rate of 1%, with very low run times.
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The synthetic fingerprint base is available at the following link: https://github.com/LeonardoCosta21/Fingerprint-synthetic-dataset.
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This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001. The authors would like to thank The Ceará State Foundation for the Support of Scientific and Technological Development (FUNCAP) for the financial support (6945087/2019).
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da Costa, L.F., Fernandes, L.S., Andrade, J.P.B., Rego, P.A.L., Maia, J.G.R. (2021). Deep Convolutional Features for Fingerprint Indexing. In: Britto, A., Valdivia Delgado, K. (eds) Intelligent Systems. BRACIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13074. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91699-2_16
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