Multi-resolution texture analysis for fingerprint based age-group estimation

In this paper the possibility of using digital fingerprints to estimate age-groups of human being, particularly children is investigated. To our knowledge, age-group estimation in humans, using digital fingerprints have not been addressed formally. Age-group estimation can be applied in many areas like on-line child protection, access control and customized internet services etc. Motivated by the fact that human digital fingerprint vary in texture as the person ages, a multi-resolution texture approach for automatic age-group estimation has been presented in this paper. Three standard classifiers were used to judge the accuracy of the proposed method. In the process of this research study, a novel method for digital fingerprint reference point generation was developed, which provides reference point for very poor quality images also. The proposed reference point generation method is compared with core-point method using FG-NET DB1 dataset. Experimental results proves that a digital fingerprint can be used to identify age-groups, particularly children. A classification accuracy of 80 percent was achieved for children below the age of 14 by using the aforesaid method.

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