• DocumentCode
    45961
  • Title

    Wavelet-Markov local descriptor for detecting fake fingerprints

  • Author

    Gragnaniello, Diego ; Poggi, Giovanni ; Sansone, Carlo ; Verdoliva, Luisa

  • Author_Institution
    DIETI, Univ. Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy
  • Volume
    50
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    March 13 2014
  • Firstpage
    439
  • Lastpage
    441
  • Abstract
    The use of a wavelet-Markov local descriptor, which exploits joint dependencies among wavelet coefficients, for fingerprint liveness detection, is proposed. On the LivDet 2009 datasets, a properly trained support vector machine classifier based on this descriptor guarantees an average error below 3%, as opposed to the 8% average error of the best conventional techniques.
  • Keywords
    Markov processes; fingerprint identification; support vector machines; wavelet transforms; LivDet 2009 datasets; SVM classifier; fake fingerprint detection; fingerprint liveness detection; support vector machine classifier; wavelet coefficients; wavelet-Markov local descriptor;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2013.4044
  • Filename
    6777148