This chapter strives to investigate fingerprint ageing effects from a new full-hand image ageing dataset highlighting template-ageing effects and a separate child vs. adult dataset targeting age-group performance.

Chapter Contents:

• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Related work in fingerprint ageing
• 8.3 System and setup
• 8.3.1 Acquisition and preprocessing
• 8.3.2 Fingerprint extraction and comparison
• 8.4 Ageing experiments
• 8.4.1 The effect of age groups on fingerprint performance
• 8.4.2 The effect of template-ageing on fingerprint performance
• 8.4.3 Fingerprint ageing goats
• 8.4.4 Ageing and quality
• 8.5 Conclusion
• References

Inspec keywords: ageing; fingerprint identification

Other keywords: child dataset; age-group performance; fingerprint ageing effects; template-ageing effects; fingerprint biometrics; adult dataset; full-hand image ageing dataset

Subjects: Image recognition; Computer vision and image processing techniques