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Fingerprint Recognition Performance Evaluation for Mobile 10 Applications 
Shimon Modi, Ph.D. 
BSPA Lab 
Purdue University 401 N. Grant Street 
West Lafayette, IN, 47907 
USA 
Ashwin Mohan 
BSPA Lab 
Purdue University 401 N. Grant Street 
West Lafayette, IN, 47907 
USA 
Abstract - According to a report by Frost and Sullivan in 
2007, revenues for non-AFIS fingerprint devices in notebook 
PC's and wireless devices is anticipated to grow from $148.5 
million to $1588.0 million by 2014, a compound annual growth 
rate of 40.3% [1]. The AFIS market has a compound annual 
growth rate of 15.2% with revenues of $445.0 million in 2007. 
With the development of mobile applications in a number of 
different market segments, such as healthcare, retail, and law 
enforcement, this paper analyzed the performance of 
fingerprints of different sizes, from different sensors 
(commercialy available optical and capacitance) which were 
generated in accordance with NIST Mobile 10 best practices 
document using an automated image cropping process. The 
minutiae count, image quality scores, false non match rates 
(FNMR) and false match rates (FMR) were evaluated for 
images of seven different image sizes, ranging from 
0.098"XO.126" to 0.578"XO.618". The results provide insight 
into constraints of fingerprint image sizes, interoperability and 
fingerprint matching of different sizes in a mobile 10 
environment. 
Index Terms - mobile 10 biometrics, fingerprint recognition 
performance, minutiae count. 
I. INTRODUCTION 
The need for stronger authentication and identity 
management has lead to an increased use of biometric 
technologies. Traditional authentication technologies like 
passwords and tokens are based on something that a person 
knows or possesses, respectively. Biometric technologies use 
behavioral and biological characteristics of humans for 
authentication [2]. Biometric technologies have been used in 
law enforcement applications ever since Henry formulated his 
system of fingerprint recognition in the 1890's [3]. Traditionally 
law enforcement agencies have captured fingerprints when an 
individual is brought to the booking station which allows for 
greater control over the fingerprint acquisition process. Today, 
increased connectivity outside of the traditional police booking 
area allows law enforcement agents to use mobile devices for 
a diverse range of activities in the field. Various law 
enforcement agencies have started exploring the use of 
mobile devices to capture fingerprints, face and iris images 
from individuals at remote locations and sending the 
information to a central server for further processing. Andhra 
Pradesh, a state in India, has deployed a fingerprint analysis 
and criminal tracing system based on a centralized storage 
with decentralized acquisition architecture, with the specific 
978-1-4244-7402-81101$26.00 ©2010 IEEE 
Benny Senjaya 
BSPA Lab 
Purdue University 401 N. Grant Street 
West Lafayette, IN, 47907 
USA 
Stephen Elliott 
BSPA Lab 
Purdue University 401 N. Grant Street 
West Lafayette, IN, 47907 
USA 
intent of capturing information from the field and checking it 
against a central repository [4]. Mobile devices give law 
enforcement agencies the advantage of capturing biometric 
information in various locations without the inconvenience of 
bringing the subject back to a central processing location [5]. 
Using mobile devices to capture biometric data can improve 
the effectiveness of agents by providing the capability of 
identifying people of interest in the field and generally 
improving workflow. But there are several technical and 
operational challenges to implementing a mobile device 
biometric system. Mobile devices embedded with biometric 
technologies currently do not have a standardized sensor 
capture area thereby producing different sized images. 
Knowledge of the optimal size of the fingerprint image and its 
impact on quality and performance of the overall system can 
make the system more efficient. The research presented in 
this paper evaluated the impact of fingerprint size and 
fingerprint sensor interoperability on recognition performance. 
The purpose of this research was to examine image quality, 
minutiae count and performance in terms of matching error 
rates of different sized fingerprint images collected from an 
optical and capacitive fingerprint sensor. The objective of this 
assessment was to provide performance related information 
on feasibility of using mobile fingerprint devices in the field and 
thereby improving best practices for such devices. 
II. LITERATURE REVIEW 
One of the earliest works in evaluating impact of image 
size on fingerprint recognition performance was performed 
by [6]. Watson and Wilson examined the effect of cropping 
fingerprint images on the ability to match the fingerprints. 
The conclusion of their evaluation was to not use fingerprint 
images of less than 320X320 pixels for matching. They also 
concluded that compression degrades performance at a 
slower rate than the size of the fingerprint image. 
In [7], Schneider et aI., described results of a study that 
analyzed correlation of fingerprint image size on matching 
performance. They used a dataset of images collected from 
259 people with an ultrasonic fingerprint reader. They 
cropped their fingerprint images using a center point 
calculated by two different methods. The first method used a 
fixed pOint on the platen of the sensor as the cropping center 
point. The second method calculated the center of mass 
using centroiding techniques. Their results showed a 
decreased performance with a decrease in image size. This 
study demonstrated correlation between image size and 
performance, but did not attempt to analyze impact of quality
on performance of images of different sizes. 
Ortega-Garcia et.al in [8] described a speech and 
fingerprint multimodal matching system where a mobile 
device is used to collect the biometric data. The data was 
evaluated using three different multimodal fusion techniques 
and an adaptive fusion strategy, and the results showed an 
improvement in all strategies thus demonstrating the 
feasibility of using biometric data collected from mobile 
devices. 
Interoperability of fingerprint sensors is an issue that has an 
impact on performance of fingerprint recognition [9]. The 
variations and distortions introduced by different acquisition 
technologies are not consistent which generates matching 
errors. Most commercially available optical sensors are based 
on the concept of Frustrated Total Internal Refraction (FTIR) 
which is affected by skin distortion, outdoor lighting and 
residue on the sensor platen [10]. Most capacitive sensors 
measure the difference in capacitance on a charged surface 
when a finger comes in contact with it. The difference in 
capacitance corresponds to the ridges and valleys of the 
fingerprint [11]. The impact of sensor interoperability can be 
reduced by improving the quality of fingerprint images and 
fusing features of fingerprints collected from different sensors 
[12]. This study expanded on the work performed by [6] and 
[7] with respect to image sizes by analyzing images collected 
from different acquisition technologies and including minutiae 
count and image quality information in the analysis framework. 
III. DATA SET & METHODOLOGY 
Fingerprints from 190 subjects were used for analysis in 
this study. Six fingerprint images were collected from the index 
finger of the subject's dominant hand using two different 
fingerprint sensors. The fingerprints were collected in a single 
session and the subjects were seated during the fingerprint 
acquisition session. A large area capacitive touch sensor and 
optical sensor were used in this study. Both sensors were 
FIPS 201 certified for single capture devices. Table 1 gives a 
summary of the participant demographics. 
Total Participants 
Gender 
Occupation 
Number of samples 
TABLE I 
DATASET SUMMARY 
190 
Male 
131 
Manual Laborer 
17 
Female 
59 
Office Worker 
173 
190'6 - 1140 
In order to test the effect of image size on image quality and 
performance, seven different image sizes were selected. The 
original image collected during the data collection session was 
cropped to form the images for these seven different sizes. 
The image sizes were chosen from page 17 of the Mobile ID 
Device Best Practice Recommendation [3]. A Matlab ™ 
application developed in-house was used to crop the images 
using the core values as the center of the cropping region. If a 
fingerprint image had two cores then the core with the higher 
y-axis coordinate was chosen. Table 2 lists the image sizes 
and image examples from the 2 sensors. Please note the 
samples images shown here are not the original size images. 
These samples are an illustration of the amount of detail in 
each image. It was observed that images at level 7 were large 
enough to capture the entire fingerprint image. 
TABLE II 
SAMPLE IMAGES 
Image Size Level 
0.098" X 0.126" 
0.118" X 0.154" 2 
0.154" X 0.194" 3 
0.31 4 
5 
7 
The purpose of this research was to examine image quality, 
minutiae count and performance in terms of matching error 
rates of different sized fingerprint images collected from an 
optical and capacitive fingerprint sensor. One of the objectives 
of this study was to simulate matching of fingerprints collected 
by different sensors and of different sizes, the fingerprint were 
cropped to simulate the size of images that would be collected 
from a mobile device. 
IV. DATA SET & METHODOLOGY 
A. Minutiae Count 
This step of the analysis was to examine the average 
minutiae count for each of the seven image sizes noted above 
in Table 2. Minutiae counts were generated using 
Neurotechnology's VeriFinger 6.0 extractor. The results 
indicated that fingerprint images from image size level 4 
(O.31"X 0.29") and above had an average minutiae count 
higher than 10.
Level 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
TABLE III 
AVERAGE MINUTIAE COUNT 
Optical Capacitive 
Dataset Dataset 
1.98 2.04 
2.91 2.92 
4.28 4.32 
11.04 10.83 
15.11 15.06 
16.54 16.37 
32.31 32.12 
The number of minutiae is fundamental to the process of 
matching fingerprints. The 12-point guideline used in forensic 
science states that assuming an expert can correctly extract 
all minutiae points from a latent fingerprint, a 12-point match 
with a full fingerprint can be considered as a sufficient 
evidence of fingerprint matching [13]. Figures 1 and 2 show 
the minutiae histograms across the seven different image 
sizes. 
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B. NFIQ Image Quality 
Image quality scores using the NFIQ image quality 
algorithm were calculated [14]. NFIQ generates quality scores 
in the range of 1-5 where 1 indicates best possible score and 
5 indicates the worse possible score. NFIQ scores are 
predictive of performance that should be expected for the 
fingerprint image. Due to the extremely low minutiae count for 
levels 1, 2 and 3 (Table 3) image quality scores were 
generated only for fingerprints at levels 4, 5, 6, and 7. The raw 
images were converted to WSQ format at 15:1 ratio using a 
certified package [15]. Table 4 gives a summary of descriptive 
statistics at each level. 
TABLE IV 
NFIQ SCORE DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS 
Level Optical Dataset Capacitive 
Dataset 
4 Median : 3.0 Median : 3.0 
Mean: 3.0 Mean : 3.0 
5 Median :3.0 Median :3.0 
Mean:2.8 Mean:2.7 
6 Median: 3.0 Median: 3.0 
Mean 2.8 Mean: 2.7 
7 Median : 2.0 Median : 2.0 
Mean:1.9 Mean:1.7 
Quality assessment is important to ensure high quality 
fingerprint images are stored for matching purposes. Previous 
research has shown that the effect of low quality images is 
predictable, but the impact of high quality images is harder to 
determine. Images at levels 4, 5, and 6 had the same median 
score and images at level 7 had the best NFIQ median score. 
Both the optical and capacitive data sets exhibited similar 
behavior for image quality scores and average minutiae count. 
C. Performance of Native Datasets 
To compare performance of biometric systems a modified 
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve called 
Detection Error Tradeoff (DET) curve can be used [16]. A DET 
curve plots the false match rate (FMR) on the x-axis and false 
non match rate (FNMR) on the y-axis as function of decision 
threshold. 
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image size levels 1 to 7 for the optical and capacitive data sets 
respectively. Tables 5 and 6 list the FNMR and FMR 
respectively at an operational threshold of 0.1 % FMR using 
the VeriFinger matcher. 
TABLE V 
VERI FINGER FNMR (IN %) 
ImaQe Size Level Optical Dataset Capacitive Dataset 
1 98.52 98.37 
2 81.76 81.00 
3 46.24 41.25 
4 1.27 1.70 
5 0.00 0.58 
6 0.12 0.29 
7 0.00 0.00 
TABLE VII 
VERI FINGER FMR (IN %) 
ImaQe Size Level Optical Dataset Capacitive Dataset 
4 0.28 0.26 
5 0.30 0.23 
6 0.16 0.14 
7 0.00 0.01 
Both DET curves showed an improvement in performance 
as the size of the images was increased. The best 
performance for the fingerprint images was found to be at 
level 7 for both the optical and capacitive datasets. The results 
from Tables 3 and 4 showed that images at level 7 had the 
best quality and the highest average of minutiae count which 
resulted in lower number of false non match and false match 
errors. This was expected since level 7 covered the entire 
fingerprint region. The median NFIQ scores for images at 
levels 4, 5 and 6 (Table 4) showed a similar median score but 
the DET curves showed a marked improvement in 
performance for both the optical and capacitive data sets. 
Although the median image quality score at level 4 and 5 were 
the same, the average number of minutiae count increased 
which lead to a decrease in the FNMR. 
D. Zoo Plot Analysis 
The relation between genuine score distribution and 
imposter score distribution can be analyzed using the 
biometric zoo plot as described by Dunstone and Yeager [17). 
They described four different categories based on the 
relationship between genuine and imposter scores: 
Chameleons, Phantoms, Doves and Worms. Chameleons 
generate high genuine and imposter scores. Phantoms 
generate low genuine and imposter scores. Doves generate 
high genuine scores and low imposter scores. Worms 
generate 1?"¥J!enuine score~ and high imposter scores. 
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provides the ability to visually analyze large biometric 
datasets, was used to generate so called "zoo plots". Fig. 5 
and 6 are the zoo plots for level 7 datasets for optical and 
capacitive sensors. 
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Both figures 5 and 6 show a weak positive relationship 
between average genuine match score and average imposter 
score for the datasets. The graphs show a higher probability 
of finding worms (the bottom left quadrant) indicating that 
subjects were generating low genuine and imposter scores. 
Low genuine scores will result in a lower confidence in the 
matching operation, as well as a higher probability of false non 
matches, which in a law enforcement application is not 
desirable. Analysis of the zoo plots did not reveal any specific 
trends for any of the zoo categories. Similar zoo plots were 
generated for level 5 and level 6 for optical and capacitive 
data sets and while the overall relationship remained stable, 
the individual data points were more widely dispersed. Those 
subjects that generated the highest number of false matches 
were identified from the zoo plot. For optical dataset and 
capacitive dataset level 7, two subjects were found to have
produced 36 false matches but they were not generated 
against the same subjects. The same analysis was performed 
on level 5 and 6 for both datasets to examine trends in 
subjects generating false matches and false non-matches. 
The results are given in Table 7. 
Table 1. Veri Finger FMR (in %) 
Level Subject Number of 
ID(s) False Matches 
Optical L7 56,70 36 
Capacitive L7 58,178 36 
Optical L6 79,178 160 
Capacitive L6 58,1 186 
Optical L5 4,58 252 
Capacitive L5 36,87 192 
For images at level 7, 6 and 5 there were no common 
subjects between optical and capacitive datasets. Identifying 
subjects that generate errors in the optical dataset would not 
be useful in identifying subjects that generate errors in the 
capacitive dataset and vice-versa. It was also observed that 
there were no common subjects for the optical dataset across 
different levels. The same observation holds true for the 
capacitive dataset across different levels. 
E. Performance of Interoperable Datasets 
In a mobile 10 infrastructure, the ability to match fingerprints 
from different sensors is important. Previous research has 
shown that matching fingerprints from different sensors has an 
effect on error rates [18]. Interoperability analysis was 
performed to evaluate the FNMR of matching fingerprints from 
the optical and capacitive datasets. The analysis concentrated 
on FNMR as a first step towards a comprehensive analysis of 
performance analysis. VeriFinger 6.0 was used to generate 
FNMR. Every subject provided 6 images on each sensor. The 
interoperable dataset was generated by combining 3 images 
from the optical dataset with 3 images from the capacitive 
dataset. FNMR was calculated for the interoperable datasets 
at every image size level by comparing the optical fingerprint 
images to capacitive fingerprint images. Table 8 shows the 
results of the interoperable FNMR at fixed 0.1 % FMR. 
Table 2. FNMR (in %) at FMR of 0.1% 
Image Size Level Interoperable 
Dataset 
1 99.79 
2 91.42 
3 61.34 
4 4.56 
5 1.03 
6 0.27 
7 0.27 
Interoperability FNMR reduced significantly between level 3 
and level 4, which can be attributed to higher number of 
minutiae points for level 4 images. This improvement indicates 
the need for larger size images when comparing images from 
different sensors. The interoperability FNMR for images for 
level 5 was different from level 6 and this seems to have been 
caused in part by the higher number of minutiae points and 
not due to image quality scores. This indicates a need for a an 
assessment framework of input fingerprint images which takes 
into account factors other than just image quality scores. 
F. Matching Performance for Different Sized Images 
The size of fingerprint images collected from the field will not 
remain constant. The size of the fingerprint image is a function 
of the type of mobile device used for capturing the fingerprint 
images. The analysis in this section focused on understanding 
the impact of comparing fingerprint images of different sizes. 
Images at level 7, (0.578XO.618) - the largest size were 
considered to be the enrollment or reference template. 
Fingerprints from levels 3, 4, 5 and 6 were compared to the 
reference template and the FNMR was calculated, which are 
shown in Table 9. 
Table 3. FNMR (in %) at FMR of 0.1 % 
Enrollment Level Comparison Optical Capacitiv 
Level Dataset e Dataset 
FNMR% FNMR% 
3 70.28 68.53 
7 4 2.09 2.16 
5 0.12 0.26 
6 0.24 0.26 
The lowest FNMR was generated when images from level 5 
and 6 were compared to the enrollment images. Both optical 
and capacitive fingerprint images showed a similar trend in 
decrease of FNMR among the different levels of images. The 
ability to match fingerprints of different sizes is crucial, and 
even more so in a mobile device environment. When results 
from Table 5 are compared with results from Table 9 it can be 
seen that matching two fingerprints from image size level 4 
yields better results than matching fingerprints of level 7 to 
level 4. It was also observed that matching fingerprints from 
different image size levels had better results than matching 
fingerprints from different sensors. Operational decisions 
about mobile fingerprint devices will depend on the 
performance of fingerprints captured, and these results will aid 
in forming policies for comparing fingerprints of different sizes 
and fingerprints collected from different sensors. For example, 
comparison of fingerprints from level 7 and 3 should not use a 
single fingerprint to make a decision, whereas confidence in 
comparison of fingerprints from level 7 and 4 would be 
increased by using 2 or more fingers. 
V. CONCLUSIONS 
The results from this research show that single fingerprint 
images of sizes at or below level 3 are unsuitable for matching 
purposes. For mobile fingerprint devices the number of 
minutiae extracted from the image is as crucial as capturing 
high quality fingerprint images. Although fingerprints at level 7 
showed the best results, fingerprint images at levels 5 and 6 
also showed performance that would be acceptable in law 
enforcement applications. Interoperability FNMR reduced as 
the size of the fingerprint image was increased, which 
indicates that the number of minutiae was important to
reducing FNMR. An interesting result was the similarity of the 
interoperability FNMR at level 6 and level 7, even though the 
number of minutiae count and NFIQ score was significantly 
different at the two levels. The comparison of fingerprint 
images across different levels also showed acceptable FNMR 
at levels 5 and 6. 
The results from this research have shown the 
different operational issues that could arise due to use of 
fingerprint recognition in a mobile 10 environment. There are 
several other avenues of research which require attention to 
get a better understanding of mobile fingerprint recognition. 
This study used images collected using peripheral fingerprint 
scanners. Collecting fingerprint images using mobile devices 
would also highlight usability issues, data collection errors and 
differences between providing fingerprint sequentially or 
simultaneously to the fingerprint devices. This study used 
single fingerprint comparisons for calculating FNMR. Future 
studies should examine the improvement in performance by 
using 2, 3, and 4 finger matching. Another important aspect in 
mobile 10 is the data transfer rates between the mobile device 
and the central processing station. The size of the data 
packets would determine the processing time, and the impact 
of different WSQ compression levels at each size level also 
needs to be analyzed. The INC ITS 378 template standard was 
not used to store the fingerprint details in this study. The 
impact of standardized templates also requires evaluation in 
order to ensure interoperability between different systems. As 
the deployments of mobile fingerprint devices increases 
further research into these operational issues will become 
crucial to its success. 
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VIII. VITA 
Shimon Modi graduated from Purdue University in 2008 
with Ph. D. in Technology focusing on evaluation of biometric 
system interoperability. He has been the Director of Research 
of BSPA Lab, Purdue University and he is currently a visiting 
scientist with Center for Development of Advanced Computing 
(C-DAC) Mumbai, India. He has written several papers on 
statistical evaluation of biometric systems with respect to 
interoperability, sample quality and demographics. 
Ashwin Mohan is a graduate student currently pursuing the 
M. S. degree in Information Security from the Centre for 
Education and Research in Information Assurance (CERIAS) 
at Purdue University. He received his Bachelors degree from 
the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and 
Communication Technology (DA-IICT), India. His research 
interests include fingerprint recognition, development of 
biometric standards and evaluation of small scale device 
forensics. 
Benny Senjaya is a graduate student currently pursuing the 
M.S. degree in Technology focusing on human interaction 
within biometric technology at Purdue University. He received

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(2010) Fingerprint recognition performance evaluation for mobile ID applications

  • 1. Fingerprint Recognition Performance Evaluation for Mobile 10 Applications Shimon Modi, Ph.D. BSPA Lab Purdue University 401 N. Grant Street West Lafayette, IN, 47907 USA Ashwin Mohan BSPA Lab Purdue University 401 N. Grant Street West Lafayette, IN, 47907 USA Abstract - According to a report by Frost and Sullivan in 2007, revenues for non-AFIS fingerprint devices in notebook PC's and wireless devices is anticipated to grow from $148.5 million to $1588.0 million by 2014, a compound annual growth rate of 40.3% [1]. The AFIS market has a compound annual growth rate of 15.2% with revenues of $445.0 million in 2007. With the development of mobile applications in a number of different market segments, such as healthcare, retail, and law enforcement, this paper analyzed the performance of fingerprints of different sizes, from different sensors (commercialy available optical and capacitance) which were generated in accordance with NIST Mobile 10 best practices document using an automated image cropping process. The minutiae count, image quality scores, false non match rates (FNMR) and false match rates (FMR) were evaluated for images of seven different image sizes, ranging from 0.098"XO.126" to 0.578"XO.618". The results provide insight into constraints of fingerprint image sizes, interoperability and fingerprint matching of different sizes in a mobile 10 environment. Index Terms - mobile 10 biometrics, fingerprint recognition performance, minutiae count. I. INTRODUCTION The need for stronger authentication and identity management has lead to an increased use of biometric technologies. Traditional authentication technologies like passwords and tokens are based on something that a person knows or possesses, respectively. Biometric technologies use behavioral and biological characteristics of humans for authentication [2]. Biometric technologies have been used in law enforcement applications ever since Henry formulated his system of fingerprint recognition in the 1890's [3]. Traditionally law enforcement agencies have captured fingerprints when an individual is brought to the booking station which allows for greater control over the fingerprint acquisition process. Today, increased connectivity outside of the traditional police booking area allows law enforcement agents to use mobile devices for a diverse range of activities in the field. Various law enforcement agencies have started exploring the use of mobile devices to capture fingerprints, face and iris images from individuals at remote locations and sending the information to a central server for further processing. Andhra Pradesh, a state in India, has deployed a fingerprint analysis and criminal tracing system based on a centralized storage with decentralized acquisition architecture, with the specific 978-1-4244-7402-81101$26.00 ©2010 IEEE Benny Senjaya BSPA Lab Purdue University 401 N. Grant Street West Lafayette, IN, 47907 USA Stephen Elliott BSPA Lab Purdue University 401 N. Grant Street West Lafayette, IN, 47907 USA intent of capturing information from the field and checking it against a central repository [4]. Mobile devices give law enforcement agencies the advantage of capturing biometric information in various locations without the inconvenience of bringing the subject back to a central processing location [5]. Using mobile devices to capture biometric data can improve the effectiveness of agents by providing the capability of identifying people of interest in the field and generally improving workflow. But there are several technical and operational challenges to implementing a mobile device biometric system. Mobile devices embedded with biometric technologies currently do not have a standardized sensor capture area thereby producing different sized images. Knowledge of the optimal size of the fingerprint image and its impact on quality and performance of the overall system can make the system more efficient. The research presented in this paper evaluated the impact of fingerprint size and fingerprint sensor interoperability on recognition performance. The purpose of this research was to examine image quality, minutiae count and performance in terms of matching error rates of different sized fingerprint images collected from an optical and capacitive fingerprint sensor. The objective of this assessment was to provide performance related information on feasibility of using mobile fingerprint devices in the field and thereby improving best practices for such devices. II. LITERATURE REVIEW One of the earliest works in evaluating impact of image size on fingerprint recognition performance was performed by [6]. Watson and Wilson examined the effect of cropping fingerprint images on the ability to match the fingerprints. The conclusion of their evaluation was to not use fingerprint images of less than 320X320 pixels for matching. They also concluded that compression degrades performance at a slower rate than the size of the fingerprint image. In [7], Schneider et aI., described results of a study that analyzed correlation of fingerprint image size on matching performance. They used a dataset of images collected from 259 people with an ultrasonic fingerprint reader. They cropped their fingerprint images using a center point calculated by two different methods. The first method used a fixed pOint on the platen of the sensor as the cropping center point. The second method calculated the center of mass using centroiding techniques. Their results showed a decreased performance with a decrease in image size. This study demonstrated correlation between image size and performance, but did not attempt to analyze impact of quality
  • 2. on performance of images of different sizes. Ortega-Garcia et.al in [8] described a speech and fingerprint multimodal matching system where a mobile device is used to collect the biometric data. The data was evaluated using three different multimodal fusion techniques and an adaptive fusion strategy, and the results showed an improvement in all strategies thus demonstrating the feasibility of using biometric data collected from mobile devices. Interoperability of fingerprint sensors is an issue that has an impact on performance of fingerprint recognition [9]. The variations and distortions introduced by different acquisition technologies are not consistent which generates matching errors. Most commercially available optical sensors are based on the concept of Frustrated Total Internal Refraction (FTIR) which is affected by skin distortion, outdoor lighting and residue on the sensor platen [10]. Most capacitive sensors measure the difference in capacitance on a charged surface when a finger comes in contact with it. The difference in capacitance corresponds to the ridges and valleys of the fingerprint [11]. The impact of sensor interoperability can be reduced by improving the quality of fingerprint images and fusing features of fingerprints collected from different sensors [12]. This study expanded on the work performed by [6] and [7] with respect to image sizes by analyzing images collected from different acquisition technologies and including minutiae count and image quality information in the analysis framework. III. DATA SET & METHODOLOGY Fingerprints from 190 subjects were used for analysis in this study. Six fingerprint images were collected from the index finger of the subject's dominant hand using two different fingerprint sensors. The fingerprints were collected in a single session and the subjects were seated during the fingerprint acquisition session. A large area capacitive touch sensor and optical sensor were used in this study. Both sensors were FIPS 201 certified for single capture devices. Table 1 gives a summary of the participant demographics. Total Participants Gender Occupation Number of samples TABLE I DATASET SUMMARY 190 Male 131 Manual Laborer 17 Female 59 Office Worker 173 190'6 - 1140 In order to test the effect of image size on image quality and performance, seven different image sizes were selected. The original image collected during the data collection session was cropped to form the images for these seven different sizes. The image sizes were chosen from page 17 of the Mobile ID Device Best Practice Recommendation [3]. A Matlab ™ application developed in-house was used to crop the images using the core values as the center of the cropping region. If a fingerprint image had two cores then the core with the higher y-axis coordinate was chosen. Table 2 lists the image sizes and image examples from the 2 sensors. Please note the samples images shown here are not the original size images. These samples are an illustration of the amount of detail in each image. It was observed that images at level 7 were large enough to capture the entire fingerprint image. TABLE II SAMPLE IMAGES Image Size Level 0.098" X 0.126" 0.118" X 0.154" 2 0.154" X 0.194" 3 0.31 4 5 7 The purpose of this research was to examine image quality, minutiae count and performance in terms of matching error rates of different sized fingerprint images collected from an optical and capacitive fingerprint sensor. One of the objectives of this study was to simulate matching of fingerprints collected by different sensors and of different sizes, the fingerprint were cropped to simulate the size of images that would be collected from a mobile device. IV. DATA SET & METHODOLOGY A. Minutiae Count This step of the analysis was to examine the average minutiae count for each of the seven image sizes noted above in Table 2. Minutiae counts were generated using Neurotechnology's VeriFinger 6.0 extractor. The results indicated that fingerprint images from image size level 4 (O.31"X 0.29") and above had an average minutiae count higher than 10.
  • 3. Level 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 TABLE III AVERAGE MINUTIAE COUNT Optical Capacitive Dataset Dataset 1.98 2.04 2.91 2.92 4.28 4.32 11.04 10.83 15.11 15.06 16.54 16.37 32.31 32.12 The number of minutiae is fundamental to the process of matching fingerprints. The 12-point guideline used in forensic science states that assuming an expert can correctly extract all minutiae points from a latent fingerprint, a 12-point match with a full fingerprint can be considered as a sufficient evidence of fingerprint matching [13]. Figures 1 and 2 show the minutiae histograms across the seven different image sizes. 0.6 s---------------------, 0.5 0.4 .. '1i 8 0.3 0.2 0.1 OJ 0.6 0.5 !: 0.4 ·iii c: 2: 0.3 0.2 0. 1 1 1,---Level l II II II 1 II II J I Level 2 lev el 7 40 50 Data Fig. 1. Optical Dataset Minutiae Histogram o 10 20 30 Data Lev el l 40 50 Fig. 2. Capacitive Dataset Minutiae Histogram 60 60 B. NFIQ Image Quality Image quality scores using the NFIQ image quality algorithm were calculated [14]. NFIQ generates quality scores in the range of 1-5 where 1 indicates best possible score and 5 indicates the worse possible score. NFIQ scores are predictive of performance that should be expected for the fingerprint image. Due to the extremely low minutiae count for levels 1, 2 and 3 (Table 3) image quality scores were generated only for fingerprints at levels 4, 5, 6, and 7. The raw images were converted to WSQ format at 15:1 ratio using a certified package [15]. Table 4 gives a summary of descriptive statistics at each level. TABLE IV NFIQ SCORE DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS Level Optical Dataset Capacitive Dataset 4 Median : 3.0 Median : 3.0 Mean: 3.0 Mean : 3.0 5 Median :3.0 Median :3.0 Mean:2.8 Mean:2.7 6 Median: 3.0 Median: 3.0 Mean 2.8 Mean: 2.7 7 Median : 2.0 Median : 2.0 Mean:1.9 Mean:1.7 Quality assessment is important to ensure high quality fingerprint images are stored for matching purposes. Previous research has shown that the effect of low quality images is predictable, but the impact of high quality images is harder to determine. Images at levels 4, 5, and 6 had the same median score and images at level 7 had the best NFIQ median score. Both the optical and capacitive data sets exhibited similar behavior for image quality scores and average minutiae count. C. Performance of Native Datasets To compare performance of biometric systems a modified Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve called Detection Error Tradeoff (DET) curve can be used [16]. A DET curve plots the false match rate (FMR) on the x-axis and false non match rate (FNMR) on the y-axis as function of decision threshold. 01 O(r. 01" l· l."md 11 U U L< '" L.' FAIl Fig. 3. Optical Dataset DET Curves lOIn:
  • 4. .g _ ...... ......... fh $ . . .... �' Ol¶ 01111: L¾ll U - ´ FAR ... =- ""' 1µ lln Fig. 4. Capacitive Dataset DET Curves Figure 3 and 4 show superimposed DET curves for the image size levels 1 to 7 for the optical and capacitive data sets respectively. Tables 5 and 6 list the FNMR and FMR respectively at an operational threshold of 0.1 % FMR using the VeriFinger matcher. TABLE V VERI FINGER FNMR (IN %) ImaQe Size Level Optical Dataset Capacitive Dataset 1 98.52 98.37 2 81.76 81.00 3 46.24 41.25 4 1.27 1.70 5 0.00 0.58 6 0.12 0.29 7 0.00 0.00 TABLE VII VERI FINGER FMR (IN %) ImaQe Size Level Optical Dataset Capacitive Dataset 4 0.28 0.26 5 0.30 0.23 6 0.16 0.14 7 0.00 0.01 Both DET curves showed an improvement in performance as the size of the images was increased. The best performance for the fingerprint images was found to be at level 7 for both the optical and capacitive datasets. The results from Tables 3 and 4 showed that images at level 7 had the best quality and the highest average of minutiae count which resulted in lower number of false non match and false match errors. This was expected since level 7 covered the entire fingerprint region. The median NFIQ scores for images at levels 4, 5 and 6 (Table 4) showed a similar median score but the DET curves showed a marked improvement in performance for both the optical and capacitive data sets. Although the median image quality score at level 4 and 5 were the same, the average number of minutiae count increased which lead to a decrease in the FNMR. D. Zoo Plot Analysis The relation between genuine score distribution and imposter score distribution can be analyzed using the biometric zoo plot as described by Dunstone and Yeager [17). They described four different categories based on the relationship between genuine and imposter scores: Chameleons, Phantoms, Doves and Worms. Chameleons generate high genuine and imposter scores. Phantoms generate low genuine and imposter scores. Doves generate high genuine scores and low imposter scores. Worms generate 1?"¥J!enuine score~ and high imposter scores. Performlx , a commercially available software package provides the ability to visually analyze large biometric datasets, was used to generate so called "zoo plots". Fig. 5 and 6 are the zoo plots for level 7 datasets for optical and capacitive sensors. Zoo p lot 14r---.----r---,--9r_:;--_r--_,----r_< 12 : . : QI ( . . • • I: c ` l5u 10 • :' _ Fm"'"!=n. o8 •... :.=W ''-7. d ..' ..' ;.. '!I .t· ... .. . ......... , ..... , ......•... •..•.• .• •...• •. ³ •...•.... ; .. ....... , .. .h6 • : .:) , ...• , ... • : a . .. : I : • .. •.• :.. : .• •... e . • : .... •..... • : ' ': . ¹ , º.......... i : .......... i : QI 4 ^ :. : : .: • t· • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • . . · . ´ • • • • • • • • • • . . · °0---;1;2-:ono --M4O:n 0--''*60;;-0 -i;80;:n0---:;1t,00;;!; 0--;-:;--,1 2!n.·0;;-0 -:;-1+,4·:-;;:00--;-:--,1 6=:·0::-0 -:-:J-1800 Average genuine match score Fig. 3. Optical Dataset Level 7 Zoo Plot Zoo Zp lot 14r-----.------.---,-------r¿---.------. 12 .............. , ---------------:- - .- .. . . . •. . . . µ p.-q--- ] ' . . . » . . ¶ 1,,- ' · 10 . ..... ' [ .. - - .- . ... •. . .* #.:+-= j.k .. b . . . . . . . . . .' -. : •. ;Z ..•. ..... •.¼ . • ------ • ½ ...... . .' • • - ' : . ' : ' ' r : ... , . , .. :. .. ' . .. ... 8.. 8 .i,. . .. .. ..... .. . . . . • . . . . · ·:, ·· ··•• · ·· ·· . l .w :
  • 5. .':1.::. { .. ; . - - ·- .;.!I 6 ···:: ..'-. ...-. . .-. ..'-- -'1 Qj • • • • • • • • • • • •• • :. . . . . . . . . . : • • • • • .. ············ I ······ .... . .... ¸ . . . . 4 . . . . . . . •. . . : .. ... . .. : . . . .• % ....... -.. . -. . .. :... . . . ... . ... . loo 400 600 800 1000 Average genuine match score 1200 Fig. 4. Capacitive Dataset Level 7 Zoo Plot 1400 Both figures 5 and 6 show a weak positive relationship between average genuine match score and average imposter score for the datasets. The graphs show a higher probability of finding worms (the bottom left quadrant) indicating that subjects were generating low genuine and imposter scores. Low genuine scores will result in a lower confidence in the matching operation, as well as a higher probability of false non matches, which in a law enforcement application is not desirable. Analysis of the zoo plots did not reveal any specific trends for any of the zoo categories. Similar zoo plots were generated for level 5 and level 6 for optical and capacitive data sets and while the overall relationship remained stable, the individual data points were more widely dispersed. Those subjects that generated the highest number of false matches were identified from the zoo plot. For optical dataset and capacitive dataset level 7, two subjects were found to have
  • 6. produced 36 false matches but they were not generated against the same subjects. The same analysis was performed on level 5 and 6 for both datasets to examine trends in subjects generating false matches and false non-matches. The results are given in Table 7. Table 1. Veri Finger FMR (in %) Level Subject Number of ID(s) False Matches Optical L7 56,70 36 Capacitive L7 58,178 36 Optical L6 79,178 160 Capacitive L6 58,1 186 Optical L5 4,58 252 Capacitive L5 36,87 192 For images at level 7, 6 and 5 there were no common subjects between optical and capacitive datasets. Identifying subjects that generate errors in the optical dataset would not be useful in identifying subjects that generate errors in the capacitive dataset and vice-versa. It was also observed that there were no common subjects for the optical dataset across different levels. The same observation holds true for the capacitive dataset across different levels. E. Performance of Interoperable Datasets In a mobile 10 infrastructure, the ability to match fingerprints from different sensors is important. Previous research has shown that matching fingerprints from different sensors has an effect on error rates [18]. Interoperability analysis was performed to evaluate the FNMR of matching fingerprints from the optical and capacitive datasets. The analysis concentrated on FNMR as a first step towards a comprehensive analysis of performance analysis. VeriFinger 6.0 was used to generate FNMR. Every subject provided 6 images on each sensor. The interoperable dataset was generated by combining 3 images from the optical dataset with 3 images from the capacitive dataset. FNMR was calculated for the interoperable datasets at every image size level by comparing the optical fingerprint images to capacitive fingerprint images. Table 8 shows the results of the interoperable FNMR at fixed 0.1 % FMR. Table 2. FNMR (in %) at FMR of 0.1% Image Size Level Interoperable Dataset 1 99.79 2 91.42 3 61.34 4 4.56 5 1.03 6 0.27 7 0.27 Interoperability FNMR reduced significantly between level 3 and level 4, which can be attributed to higher number of minutiae points for level 4 images. This improvement indicates the need for larger size images when comparing images from different sensors. The interoperability FNMR for images for level 5 was different from level 6 and this seems to have been caused in part by the higher number of minutiae points and not due to image quality scores. This indicates a need for a an assessment framework of input fingerprint images which takes into account factors other than just image quality scores. F. Matching Performance for Different Sized Images The size of fingerprint images collected from the field will not remain constant. The size of the fingerprint image is a function of the type of mobile device used for capturing the fingerprint images. The analysis in this section focused on understanding the impact of comparing fingerprint images of different sizes. Images at level 7, (0.578XO.618) - the largest size were considered to be the enrollment or reference template. Fingerprints from levels 3, 4, 5 and 6 were compared to the reference template and the FNMR was calculated, which are shown in Table 9. Table 3. FNMR (in %) at FMR of 0.1 % Enrollment Level Comparison Optical Capacitiv Level Dataset e Dataset FNMR% FNMR% 3 70.28 68.53 7 4 2.09 2.16 5 0.12 0.26 6 0.24 0.26 The lowest FNMR was generated when images from level 5 and 6 were compared to the enrollment images. Both optical and capacitive fingerprint images showed a similar trend in decrease of FNMR among the different levels of images. The ability to match fingerprints of different sizes is crucial, and even more so in a mobile device environment. When results from Table 5 are compared with results from Table 9 it can be seen that matching two fingerprints from image size level 4 yields better results than matching fingerprints of level 7 to level 4. It was also observed that matching fingerprints from different image size levels had better results than matching fingerprints from different sensors. Operational decisions about mobile fingerprint devices will depend on the performance of fingerprints captured, and these results will aid in forming policies for comparing fingerprints of different sizes and fingerprints collected from different sensors. For example, comparison of fingerprints from level 7 and 3 should not use a single fingerprint to make a decision, whereas confidence in comparison of fingerprints from level 7 and 4 would be increased by using 2 or more fingers. V. CONCLUSIONS The results from this research show that single fingerprint images of sizes at or below level 3 are unsuitable for matching purposes. For mobile fingerprint devices the number of minutiae extracted from the image is as crucial as capturing high quality fingerprint images. Although fingerprints at level 7 showed the best results, fingerprint images at levels 5 and 6 also showed performance that would be acceptable in law enforcement applications. Interoperability FNMR reduced as the size of the fingerprint image was increased, which indicates that the number of minutiae was important to
  • 7. reducing FNMR. An interesting result was the similarity of the interoperability FNMR at level 6 and level 7, even though the number of minutiae count and NFIQ score was significantly different at the two levels. The comparison of fingerprint images across different levels also showed acceptable FNMR at levels 5 and 6. The results from this research have shown the different operational issues that could arise due to use of fingerprint recognition in a mobile 10 environment. There are several other avenues of research which require attention to get a better understanding of mobile fingerprint recognition. This study used images collected using peripheral fingerprint scanners. Collecting fingerprint images using mobile devices would also highlight usability issues, data collection errors and differences between providing fingerprint sequentially or simultaneously to the fingerprint devices. This study used single fingerprint comparisons for calculating FNMR. Future studies should examine the improvement in performance by using 2, 3, and 4 finger matching. Another important aspect in mobile 10 is the data transfer rates between the mobile device and the central processing station. The size of the data packets would determine the processing time, and the impact of different WSQ compression levels at each size level also needs to be analyzed. The INC ITS 378 template standard was not used to store the fingerprint details in this study. The impact of standardized templates also requires evaluation in order to ensure interoperability between different systems. As the deployments of mobile fingerprint devices increases further research into these operational issues will become crucial to its success. [1] VI. REFERENCES Non-AFIS Fingerprint in Notebook PC's and Wireless Market Devices, 2008. [2] ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 SD2 - Harmonized Biometric Vocabulary, 2006. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] R. Bolle, S. Cole, and N. 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Modi, Analysis of Fingerprint Sensor Interoperability on System Performance, 2008, p. 176. VIII. VITA Shimon Modi graduated from Purdue University in 2008 with Ph. D. in Technology focusing on evaluation of biometric system interoperability. He has been the Director of Research of BSPA Lab, Purdue University and he is currently a visiting scientist with Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Mumbai, India. He has written several papers on statistical evaluation of biometric systems with respect to interoperability, sample quality and demographics. Ashwin Mohan is a graduate student currently pursuing the M. S. degree in Information Security from the Centre for Education and Research in Information Assurance (CERIAS) at Purdue University. He received his Bachelors degree from the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), India. His research interests include fingerprint recognition, development of biometric standards and evaluation of small scale device forensics. Benny Senjaya is a graduate student currently pursuing the M.S. degree in Technology focusing on human interaction within biometric technology at Purdue University. He received
  • 8. his Bachelors degree from Purdue University on Computer and Information Technology specializing in Network Engineering Technology. His research interests include human interaction, iris recognition, and fingerprint recognition technology. Stephen J. Elliott is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Industrial Technology, Purdue University, where he is also a University Faculty Scholar and the Director of the Biometric Standards, Performance, and Assurance Laboratory. He received his Ph. D. from Purdue University in 2001. He has spoken at several conferences and is active in biometric standard initiatives. He is the Editor of ANSI/INCITS Information Technology-Biometric Performance Testing and Reporting-Part 5: Framework for Testing and Evaluation of Biometric System(s) for Access Control. He has written numerous articles on biometrics. His research interests include the testing and evaluation of biometric systems.