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Activities on fingerprint-based biometric systems increased in both academia and industry as several research groups and companies developed new algorithms and techniques for fingerprint recognition and as many new electronic fingerprint acquisition sensors were launched into the marketplace. The aim of this initiative is to take the first steps toward the establishment of a common basis, both for academia and industry, to better understand the state-of-the-art and what can be expected from this technology in the future.In FVC2000, four different "sensors" were used to cover the recent advances in fingerprint sensing techniques. In fact, databases 1 and 2 were collected by using two small-size and low-cost sensors (optical and capacitive, respectively). Database 3 was collected by using a higher quality (large area) optical sensor. Finally, images in database 4 were synthetically generated by using the approach described in:R. Cappelli, A. Erol, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Synthetic Fingerprint-image Generation", proceedings 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2000), Barcelona, September 2000.Each database was split into a sequestered "test" set of 800 images and an open "training" set of 80 images made available to participants for algorithm tuning.

Related Papers

• R. Cappelli, A. Erol, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Synthetic Fingerprint-image Generation", proceedings 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2000), Barcelona, September 2000. [link]