Advanced Fingerprint Recognition: From 3D Shape to Ridge Detail

Feng Liu is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Shenzhen University. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2014. Her research interests include pattern recognition and image processing, with a particular focus on fingerprints. Qijun Zhao received his Ph.D. from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2010; his M.Sc. and B.Sc. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2003 and 2006, respectively; and completed his postdoc at Michigan State University in 2010-2012. He is a Professor at Sichuan University’s College of Computer Science, and a Visiting Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology at Tibet University (2019-2020). His research is in the fields of pattern recognition, image processing, computer vision and biometrics. David Zhang is a Presidential Chair Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). He was a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he has been the Founding Director of the Biometrics Research Centre (UGC/CRC), supported by the Hong Kong SAR Government, since 2005. Currently he also serves as Visiting Chair Professor at Tsinghua University and HIT, and Adjunct Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Peking University, National University of Defense Technology and the University of Waterloo. Over the past 40 years, he has worked on pattern recognition, image processing and biometrics, and has received various awards for his research developments, including palmprint recognition, computerized TCM and facial beauty analysis. Prof. Zhang is one of the best-known international experts in the field of biometrics and he has published over 20 monographs, 480 international journal papers and 40 patents in USA/Japan/HK/China. He was listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering by Clarivate Analytics in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and2018, respectively. He is also ranked about 80 in the top 1,000 scientists for international computer science and electronics. Professor Zhang is a Croucher Senior Research Fellow, Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Fellow of both IEEE and IAPR.

Preface.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Overview: 3D Fingerprints.- Chapter 3: 3D Fingerprint Generation.- Chapter 4: 3D Fingerprint Authentication.- Chapter 5: Applications of 3D Fingerprints.- Chapter 6: Overview: High Resolution Fingerprints.- Chapter 7: High Resolution Fingerprint Acquisition.- Chapter 8 : Fingerprint Pore Extraction.- Chapter 9: Pore-Based Partial Fingerprint Alignment.- Chapter 10: Fingerprint Pore Matching.- Chapter 11: Quality Assessment of High Resolution Fingerprints.- Chapter 12: Fusion of Extended Fingerprint Features.- Chapter 13: Book Review and Future Work.