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Fingerprint Matching, Automatic

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Fingerprint comparing; Automatic

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In contrast to manual fingerprint matching, automatic fingerprint matching can be efficiently operated on a computing machine following a series of preset procedures. Automatic matching compares two given fingerprint templates (raw images or extracted features) and returns their similarity score (in a continuous range) or a binary decision (matched/non-matched).

Introduction

With the increasing expansion of large-scale databases, manual fingerprint matching cannot satisfy the demand of efficiency in many applications. Automatic fingerprint matching simulates how human experts compare the fingerprints to measure the similarity between two given fingerprint templates or to determine whether they come from the same finger [1]. For most fingerprint matching procedures, experts calculate the similarity score of two templates and give the final judgment with a preset threshold. If the score exceeds the threshold, the compared templates...

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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security Research & The Key Laboratory of Complex System and Intelligence Science Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation Zhingguancun Donglu, Beijing, China

    Jie Tian, Yangyang Zhang & Kai Cao

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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Departments of Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Anil Jain (Professor) (Professor)

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Tian, J., Zhang, Y., Cao, K. (2009). Fingerprint Matching, Automatic. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_54

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