The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Low Resolution Fingerprint Database (Version 1.0)

The fingerprint identification is most established and widely employed biometrics identifier to date. Recently there has been increasing interest in the identification of very low-resolution biometric images resulting from widely deployed surveillance cameras and mobile phones.  In this context, there is no publicly and/or freely available database of very-low resolution fingerprint images to foster research efforts in this area. The researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University have been therefore developing a very low resolution and contactless fingerprint image database since April 2009. The objective is to establish large scale low-resolution fingerprint image database for the research and make it available in the public domain to help initiate research efforts in this direction.

Brief Description

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University low resolution fingerprint database consists of low resolution finger surface images images contributed from the the male and female volunteers. This database has been largely acquired in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus during April 2009 - March 2010 using a contactless setup that uses a low resolution and low-cost webcam. This database has 1466 images from the 156 subjects, all the images are in bitmap (*.bmp) format. In this dataset about 93% of the subjects are younger than 30 years. The finger images were acquired in two separate sessions with a minimum interval of one month, maximum interval of over six months and the average interval of 66.8 days. In each session, each of the subjects provided 6 index finger image samples for this database.

Sample Images

The entire database as detailed above is made available for the research. The sample images from this database from two subjects are reproduced in the following set. 

　

　

　

　

　

Download and Copyright

The database is being made available for the researchers from July 2011 onwards. Interested researchers should follow following steps to acquire "The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Low Resolution Fingerprint Database, Version 1.0"

　

    1. Download the application form and the license agreement;

    2. Please carefully read the license agreement and get this license agreement approved and signed by the head of your institution or the person who is authorized to make legal 

         contracts with other universities/institutions in your university/institution;

    3. The signed license agreement should uploaded, along with other requested details, via the online submission link;

    4.  You should be able to receive an e-mail acknowledgement of your submission;

    5.  If/when your application is approved and another email (within next 10 days) will be sent to you with the details of downloading the database.   

　

All the rights of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Low Resolution Fingerprint Image Database  are reserved and commercial use/distribution of this database is strictly prohibited. In addition, the registered users of this database should seek explicit approval for publishing or posting any image(s) from this dataset (only the images from some particular subjects can be used for such research report/publications and such restrictions must be ensured). 

　

References

[1] Ajay Kumar and Yingbo Zhou, “Contactless Fingerprint Identification using Level Zero Features”, Proc CVPR'11, CVPR'W 2011, pp. 121-126, Colorado Springs, USA, June 2011.

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