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From Template to Image: Reconstructing Fingerprints from Minutiae Points

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From Template to Image: Reconstructing Fingerprints from Minutiae Points
—Most fingerprint-based biometric systems store the minutiae template of a user in the database. It has been traditionally assumed that the minutiae template of a user does not reveal any information about the original fingerprint. In this paper, we challenge this notion and show that three levels of information about the parent fingerprint can be elicited from the minutiae template alone, viz., 1) the orientation field information, 2) the class or type information, and 3) the friction ridge structure. The orientation estimation algorithm determines the direction of local ridges using the evidence of minutiae triplets. The estimated orientation field, along with the given minutiae distribution, is then used to predict the class of the fingerprint. Finally, the ridge structure of the parent fingerprint is generated using streamlines that are based on the estimated orientation field. Line Integral Convolution is used to impart texture to the ensuing ridges, resulting in a ridge map res...
Arun Ross, Jidnya Shah, Anil K. Jain
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Updated 27 Dec 2010
Type Journal
Year 2007
Where PAMI
Authors Arun Ross, Jidnya Shah, Anil K. Jain
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