Combining multiple matchers for a high security fingerprint verification system

Abstract Integration of various fingerprint matching algorithms is a viable method to improve the performance of a fingerprint verification system. Different fingerprint matching algorithms are often based on different representations of the input fingerprints and hence complement each other. We use the logistic transform to integrate the output scores from three different fingerprint matching algorithms. Experiments conducted on a large fingerprint database confirm the effectiveness of the proposed integration scheme.

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