Latent Testing Workshop :: Reading Materials

This page lists text books, reports, white papers, websites, product descriptions, and other publications relevant to latent fingerprints. Material covering other types of fingerprints (rolled impressions, palm prints, etc.), and general biometrics information are selectively included. The contents are under active development, and NIST welcomes the submission of any additional citations or links for inclusion on this page.

General Fingerprint Text Books

  1. David R. Ashbaugh (Hardbound - October 27, 1999 - ISBN: 0849370078): Quantitative-Qualitative Friction Ridge Analysis: An Introduction to Basic and Advanced Ridgeology

  2. David R. Ashbaugh (Softbound? - 48 pages - January 1, 1989 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Pub.) - ASIN: B0006C1PX8): Ridgeology: Modern evaluative friction ridge identification

  3. Clarence Gerald Collins (Softbound - January 1, 2001 - ISBN: 0942728181): Fingerprint Science

  4. James F. Cowger (Softbound - November 30, 1992 - ISBN:084939502X): Friction Ridge skin: Comparison and Identification of Fingerprints

  5. Federal Bureau of Investigation (Softbound - Rev. 12-84 - ISBN: 0-16-050541-0): The Science of Fingerprints, Classification and Uses

  6. Gary W. Jones (Spiral bound - October 16, 2000 - ISBN:0966197038): Introduction to Fingerprint Comparison

  7. Peter Komarinski (Hardbound - December 13, 2004 - ISBN:0124183514): Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS)

  8. Henry C. Lee (Hardbound - 2nd Ed. June 15, 2001 - ISBN: 0849309239): Advances in Fingerprint Technology

  9. Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio, Anil K. Jain, Salil Prabhakar (Hardbound - March 10, 2005 - ISBN: 0387954317): Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition

  10. J. H. Wegstein (Softbound? - 16 pages - 1968 - NBS Technical Note 466 - ASIN: B0006C1PX8): Matching fingerprints by computer

Biometrics Text Books

  1. Julian Ashbourn (Hardbound - 159 pages - November 18, 2003 - ISBN: 1852337745): Practical Biometrics: From Aspiration to Implementation (Springer Professional Computing)

  2. Julian Ashbourn (Softbound - 200 pages - October 2000 - ISBN: 1852332433): Biometrics: Advanced Identity Verification: The Complete Guide

  3. Ruud Bolle, et al (Hardbound - November 6, 2003 - ISBN: 0387400893): Guide to Biometrics (Springer Professional Computing)

  4. John Chirilli, Scott Blaul (Softbound - 408 pages - April 1, 2003 - ISBN: 07645525026): Implementing Biometric Security

  5. Samir Nanavati, et al - (Softbound - 320 pages - March 15, 2002 - ISBN: 0471099457): Biometrics: Identity Verification in a Networked World

  6. National Academy Press (Pub.) (Softbound - February 28, 2006 - ISBN: 0309101255): Summary of a Workshop on the Technology, Policy, and Cultural Dimensions of Biometric Systems

  7. James Wayman (Editor) (Hardbound - 370 pages - December 16, 2004 - ISBN: 1852335963): Biometric Systems: Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation

Forensic Science Text Books

  1. Stuart H. James (Hardbound - 816 pages - February 10, 2005 (2nd edition) - ISBN: 0849327474): Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques, Second Edition

  2. Richard Platt (Softbound - 144 pages - May 1, 2006 - ISBN: 0756618967): Crime Scene: The Ultimate Guide to Forensic Science

  3. Richard E. Saferstein (Hardbound - 608 pages - June 18, 2003 - ISBN: 0131118528): Criminalistics: an Introduction to Forensic Science (College Version), Eighth Edition

Fingerprint Identification Organizations

  1. SWGFAST (Scientific Working Group on Friction Ridge Analysis, Study and Technology.

  2. International Association for Identification (IAI).

Interesting Latent-related Websites

  1. Ed German. Latent Print Examination (http://onin.com/fp/).

  2. Kasey Wertheim. CLPEX: Complete Latent Print Examination(http://clpex.com/).

  3. Michelle Triplett. Fingerprint Terms (http://www.fprints.nwlean.net/index.htm).

  4. Kasey Wertheim. CLPEX Close Calls (Close non-matches) (http://www.clpex.com/CloseCalls/CloseCalls.htm).

  5. Ed German. Problem Idents (Close non-matches) (http://onin.com/fp/problemidents.html).

Online (Internet) Articles about Latent Fingerprint Issues

  1. Simon Cole. More Than Zero: Accounting for Error in Latent Fingerprint Identification (http://webfiles.uci.edu/scole/MoreThan0.pdf).

  2. Michael Specter. DO FINGERPRINTS LIE? The gold standard of forensic evidence is now being challenged. (http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/020527fa_FACT).

Fingerprint/Biometric Quality Algorithms

  1. T. Ko and R. Krishnan. Monitoring and reporting of fingerprint image quality and match accuracy for a large user application. In Proceedings of the 33-rd Applied Image Pattern Recognition Workshop, pages 159–164. IEEE Computer Society, 2004.

  2. R. A. Hicklin and C. L. Reedy. Implications of the IDENT/IAFIS Image Quality Study for Visa Fingerprint Processing Mitretek Systems, October 31, 2002

  3. L. Nadel et al. Image Quality Study Final Report. IDENT/IAFIS Engineering/System Development Study. Mitretek Systems, December 7, 2000

  4. J. Fierrez-Aguilar, J. Ortega-Garcia, J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, and Josef Bigun. Discriminative multimodal biometric authentication based on quality measures.[PDF 436K] Pattern Recognition, 38(5):777–779, May 2005.

  5. J. Fierrez-Aguilar, Y. Chen, J. Ortega-Garcia and A. K. Jain. Incorporating image quality in multi-algorithm fingerprint verification.[PDF 649KB] Proc. of International Conference on Biometrics (ICB) (to appear), Hong Kong, January 5-7, 2006.

  6. N. B. Nill and B. H. Bouzas. Objective Image Quality Measure Derived from Image Power Spectra Optical Enginering, April 1992. Vol. 31 no. 4 pp. 813-825

  7. M. Y. Yao, S. Pankanti, N. Haas, N. K. Ratha and R. M. Bolle. Quantifying Quality: A Case Study in Fingerprints[PDF 190KB] Proc. of IEEE on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies (AutoID), March 2002, pp.126-131

  8. Y. Chen, S. Dass and A. Jain. Localized Iris Image Quality Using 2-D Wavelets.[PDF 970KB] Proc. of International Conference on Biometrics (ICB) (to appear), Hong Kong, January 5-7, 2006.

  9. N. D. Kalka, V. Dorairaj, Y. N. Shah, N. A. Schmid and B. Cukic Image Quality Assessment for Iris Biometric[PDF 609 KB] Presented at Biometric Consortium Research Symposium, 2005

  10. R. Bolle et al. System and methods for determining the quality of fingerprint images. United States patent number US596356, 1999.

  11. N. K. Ratha and R. M. Bolle. Fingerprint image quality estimation. IBM computer science research report RC21622, 1999.

  12. L. L. Shen, A. Kot and W.M Koo. Quality measures of fingerprint images. Proc. of the Third AVBPA 2001, p182-271, June 2001

  13. S. Joun, H. Kim, Y. Chung and D. Ahn An Experimental Study on Measuring Image Quality of Infant Fingerprints Proc. of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, September 3-5, 2003. Part II, pp. 1261-1269

  14. L. Hong, Y. Wan and A.K. Jain. Fingerprint image enhancement: algorithm and performance evaluation. IEEE transaction on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, vol. 20, no.8, August 1998

  15. E. Lim, X. Jiang, and W. Yau. Fingerprint quality and validity analysis. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vol 1. pp 469-472, September 2002

  16. E. Tabassi, C. L. Wilson and C. I. Watson. Fingerprint Image Quality, NFIQ.[PDF 2.33MB] National Institute of Standards and Technology, NISTIR 7151, 2004.

  17. E. Tabassi and C. L. Wilson. Fingerprint image quality, NFIQ. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Genoa, Italy, September 2005.

  18. J. Fierrez-Aguilar, L.M. Muñoz-Serrano, F. Alonso-Fernandez, and J. Ortega-Garcia. On the effects of image quality degradation on minutiae and ridge-based automatic fingerprint recognition.[PDF 533KB] In IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, October 2005.

  19. Y. Chen, S. Dass and A. Jain. Fingerprint Quality Indices for Predicting Authentication Performance.[PDF 1.38MB] Proc. of Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA), pp. 160-170, Rye Brook, NY, July 2005.

Performance Testing

  1. J. Fierrez-Aguilar, D. Simon-Zorita, J. Ortega-Garcia and J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez. Image quality and position variability assessment in minutiae-based fingerprint verification.[PDF 604KB] IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing, 150(6):395–401, December 2003. Special Issue on Biometrics on the Internet.

  2. F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, and J. Ortega-Garcia. A review of schemes for fingerprint image quality computation[PDF 450KB] In COST 275 - Biometrics based recognition of people over the internet, October 2005.

  3. J. Moon and H. Kim Study on Metrics for Fingerprint Image Quality[PDF 79.6 KB] Technical Report, Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, Korea

  4. N. Sickler et al. Image Quality and the Elderly Biometric Standards, Performance, and Assurance Laboratory, Purdue University.

  5. N. B. Nill. Test Procedures For Verifying IAFIS Image Quality Requiments for Fingeprint Scanners and printers.[PDF 3.79 MB] Mitre Technical Report (MTR 05B0000016), April 2005

  6. A. J. Mansfield, editor. ISO/IEC 19795-1 Biometric Performance Testing and Reporting: Principles and Framework. JTC1 / SC37 / Working Group 5, FDIS, August 2005.

  7. M. Thieme, editor. ISO/IEC 19795-2 Biometric Performance Testing and Reporting: Scenario Testing. JTC1 / SC37 / Working Group 5, CD2, August 2005.

  8. P. Grother and E. Tabassi. Evaluation of Biometric Quality Measures. NIST, in preparation. Please contact the authors.

Standardization

  1. D. Benini et al. Report of the Ad Hoc Group on Biometric Quality: Document N1128. ISO/IEC, JTC1 / SC37 / Working Group 3, May 2005. http://isotc.iso.org/isotcportal.

  2. ISO/IEC JTC1 / SC37 / Working Group 3. ISO/IEC 19794 Biometric Data Interchange Formats, 2005.

  3. C. J. Tilton et al. The BioAPI Specification, INCITS 358. American National Standards Institute, Inc., 2002.

  4. F. L. Podio et al. Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework (CBEFF) INCITS 398-2005, American National Standard for Information Technology

Reference Data

  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology Fingerprint Databases

  2. University of Zagreb List of Face Recognition R+D Databases

  3. J. Ortega-Garcia, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, D. Simon, J. Gonzalez, M. Faundez-Zanuy, V. Espinosa, A. Satue, I. Hernaez, J.-J. Igarza, C. Vivaracho, D. Escudero and Q.-I. Moro. MCYT baseline corpus: A Bimodal Biometric Database[PDF 862KB] Proceedings of the IEE Conference on VISP. Vol 150, No. 6, pp. 395-401, December 2003