Fingerprint verification by decision-level fusion of optical and capacitive sensors

TitleFingerprint verification by decision-level fusion of optical and capacitive sensors
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2004
AuthorsMarcialis, GL, Roli, F
EditorD. Jain, M;AK
Conference NameInternational Workshop on Biometric Authentication (BioAW04)
Volume3087
Pagination307-317
Date Published15/05/2004
PublisherSpringer
Conference LocationPrague (Czech Republic)
Keywordsbio02, biometrics
Abstract

Although some papers argued that multi-sensor fusion could improve performances and robustness of fingerprint verification systems, no previous work explicitly dealt with such topic, and no experimental evidence has been reported. In this paper, we show by experiments that a significant performance improvement can be obtained by decision-level fusion of two well-known fingerprint capture devices. As, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on multi-sensor fingerprint fusion, we believe that it can contribute to stimulate further researches on this promising topic.

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