Title :
In Vivo Two- and Three-Dimensional Imaging of Artificial and Real Fingerprints With Optical Coherence Tomography
Author :
Cheng, Yezeng ; Larin, Kirill V.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Houston, Houston
Abstract :
Fingerprint recognition is one of the dominant methods among all biometric techniques. However, current commercial fingerprint reader systems are based on analysis of surface topography of a finger and, thus, have tremendous security vulnerability for simply made artificial fingerprint dummies. In this letter, we demonstrate that a novel optical coherence tomography-based method for depth-resolved 2-D and 3-D imaging and assessment of artificial and real fingerprints could significantly enhance spoof-proofing of fingerprint reader systems as well as provide information of both artificial and real ridge and furrow patterns (that form the fingerprint patterns) simultaneously.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; fingerprint identification; medical image processing; optical tomography; artificial fingerprints; biometric techniques; depth-resolved imaging; fingerprint patterns; fingerprint reader systems; fingerprint recognition; in vivo three-dimensional imaging; in vivo two-dimensional imaging; optical coherence tomography; real fingerprints; security vulnerability; spoof-proofing; surface topography analysis; Biomedical optical imaging; Biometrics; Fingerprint recognition; Fingers; In vivo; Optical filters; Optical imaging; Optical interferometry; Optical refraction; Surface topography; Biomedical optical imaging; optical coherence tomography (OCT); pattern recognition;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2007.904932
