Publication Details
Influence of Skin Diseases on Fingerprint Recognition
Doležel Michal, Ing. (DITS FIT BUT)
Urbánek Jaroslav, MUDr. (FNOL)
Březinová Eva (LF MUNI)
Kim Tae hoon (HU-K)
dermatology, skin disease, fingerprint recognition, biometrics
There are many people, who suffer from some of the skin diseases. These diseases have a strong influence on the process of fingerprint recognition. People with fingerprint diseases are unable to use fingerprint scanners, which is discriminating for them, since they are not allowed to use their fingerprints for the authentication purposes. First in this article the various diseases, which might influence functionality of the fingerprint based systems, are introduced, mainly from the medical point of view. This overview is followed by some examples of diseased finger fingerprints, acquired both from dactyloscopic card and electronic sensors. At the end of this article the proposed fingerprint image enhancement algorithm is described.
@ARTICLE{FITPUB9900, author = "Martin Drahansk\'{y} and Michal Dole\v{z}el and Jaroslav Urb\'{a}nek and Eva B\v{r}ezinov\'{a} and hoon Tae Kim", title = "Influence of Skin Diseases on Fingerprint Recognition", pages = "1--14", journal = "Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology", volume = 2012, number = 4, year = 2012, ISSN = "1110-7243", doi = "10.1155/2012/626148", language = "english", url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/9900" }