Mobile Touchless Fingerprint Recognition: Implementation, Performance and Usability Aspects
This addresses hygiene and usability concerns in biometric systems, particularly relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic, but is incremental as it builds on existing touchless methods.
The paper tackles touchless fingerprint recognition on smartphones, achieving comparable performance to touch-based methods under constrained conditions and showing user preference for touchless capture.
This work presents an automated touchless fingerprint recognition system for smartphones. We provide a comprehensive description of the entire recognition pipeline and discuss important requirements for a fully automated capturing system. Also, our implementation is made publicly available for research purposes. During a database acquisition, a total number of 1,360 touchless and touch-based samples of 29 subjects are captured in two different environmental situations. Experiments on the acquired database show a comparable performance of our touchless scheme and the touch-based baseline scheme under constrained environmental influences. A comparative usability study on both capturing device types indicates that the majority of subjects prefer the touchless capturing method. Based on our experimental results we analyze the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on fingerprint recognition systems. Finally, implementation aspects of touchless fingerprint recognition are summarized.