An Evaluation of Fingerprint Quality across an Elderly Population vis-a-vis 18-25 year olds
Written by admin // December 16, 2005 // Fingerprint, Image Quality, Performance, Publications and Presentations, Slideshare.net, Testing and Evaluation Protocols // Comments Off
This study evaluated the effectiveness quality of fingerprint images obtained from two populations interacting with two commercially available fingerprint recognition sensors (one capacitance, one optical). Currently, there is a lack of information within the biometric community pertaining to fingerprint image quality and an elderly population. Therefore, this study specifically examined the fingerprint image quality of an elderly population (55+) to that of an 18-25 year old population baseline. Key individual variables that may have an influence on image quality were collected and examined. These variables included age, gender, ethnicity, handedness, moisture content of each index finger, occupation(s)/hobby(ies), use of hand moisturizers, and prior use of fingerprint devices.