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Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition

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This chapter presents an introduction to biometric and, in particular, fingerprint recognition systems and provides some historical timeline on fingerprints and their adoption in forensic and civilian recognition applications. All the topics that are covered in detail in the successive chapters are surveyed here in brief. The notation and terminology are introduced, and error rates of a biometric system are explained and formalized by defining the main performance metrics. Other relevant topics such as biometric system applications, system integration, and privacy issues are also discussed.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Applications that assume a negative claim of identity cannot work in verification mode: in fact, the system has to search the entire archive to prove that the query feature set does not have a match in the enrollment database. Sometimes, even in applications that assume positive claim of identity, the system must necessarily work in identification mode, due to the practical difficulty of using an input device to enter a PIN.

  2. 2.

    “He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.” (Revelation 13:16–17).

  3. 3.

    Although there is touchless (direct) fingerprint scanning technology available, it is still necessary for the subject to be in the very close proximity of the scanner. There is presently no technology capable of video snooping of fingerprints.

  4. 4.

    https://gdpr.eu.

  5. 5.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_execution_environment.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy

    Davide Maltoni

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy

    Dario Maio

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Anil K. Jain

  4. Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Jianjiang Feng

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Maltoni, D., Maio, D., Jain, A.K., Feng, J. (2022). Introduction. In: Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83624-5_1

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