Comparative Study of Minutiae Selection Algorithms for ISO Fingerprint Templates

B Vibert (1) , Christophe Charrier (1) , Jean-Marie Le Bars (1) , Christophe Rosenberger (1)

1 Equipe SAFE - Laboratoire GREYC - UMR6072

We address the selection of fingerprint minutiae given a fingerprint ISO template. Minutiae selection plays a very important role when a secure element (i.e. a smart-card) is used. Because of the limited capability of computation and memory, the number of minutiae of a stored reference in the secure element is limited. We propose in this paper a comparative study of 6 minutiae selection methods including 2 methods from the literature and 1 like reference (No Selection). Experimental results on 3 fingerprint databases from the Fingerprint Verification Competition show their relative efficiency in terms of performance and computation time.

Mots clés: minutiae selection; ISO fingerprint template

Domaines: Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]

B Vibert, Christophe Charrier, Jean-Marie Le Bars, Christophe Rosenberger. Comparative Study of Minutiae Selection Algorithms for ISO Fingerprint Templates. IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging,, Feb 2015, San Francisco, United States. ⟨hal-01120639⟩