[fprint] New matcher project

[Robert Vanak]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Daniel Drake <dan at reactivated.net> wrote:

> Robert Vanak wrote:
>
>> * Are there any other opensource matchers besides Bozorth3 and FVS?
>>
>
> Not that I know of.


Further research turned out "Fingerprint recognition SDK" which seems much
better than Bozorth3, judging from its documentation. I am reconsidering my
plans in view of tougher competition. It might be a better idea to improve
on top of existing FR-SDK sources, but then that's not so much fun. I have
compiled a list of other algorithms with quick evaluation of each here:

https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/sourceafis/index.php?title=Main_Page

 Is anything here of use?
> http://fingerprint.nist.gov/NBIS/index.html


There appears to be an image database, but I have no idea in what format are
those AN2 files.


> The problems are that it works very well for fingerprints of young people,
> but not so well for the older generations where the skin is looser.



> The other big problem is that it doesn't work well for images with very few
> minutae (less than 10), and some of the sensors that are common in the
> marketplace only produce small images like this.
>

Both these problems plague all matching algorithms. Both can be solved to a
large extent with better scanning devices, but I understand this is not an
option all the time.

Robert
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