Non-Live Finger Print and Its Detection Methods

Non-Live Finger Print and Its Detection Methods

Mrs S.Subhashini , Research Scholar , Anna university Regional campus, Madurai

Mrs.P.Rajeswari, Assistant Professor, Dept of computer science , Mannar Thirumalai Naicker College, Madurai

Abstract— Finger print scanners  are  widely used to  provide security in various fields such as defence  control, immigration and law enforcement , health and subsidies, business transactions, forensics for identifying criminal  and prison security , Banking security, Physical access control, Information system security, customs and immigration , population,  verification of  voters identity  etc ., Because of  uniqueness of finger print image  and  ease of use,  it is extensively   used for security in biometric systems. Usage of these systems have grown steadily and  used as an alternative to passwords, personal identification number(PIN), key and tokens . Though these systems are more user friendly  and widely used for  security , they  are more vulnerable  to be hoaxed  with  non live  finger print  images by skilled  imposters . Fraudsters can  take off  someone’s identity or  to obscure  his own identity when they want to spoof biometric systems . Artificial fingerprints  are created using low-cost hardware and software . Thus any  secure biometric system must contain  spoof  detection  module, which differentiates  live and non  live  finger print images. Non live  fingerprint  detection techniques distinguishes between live and non live finger print images. Biometric authentication systems are now extensively  used and non  live fingerprint detection has become  crucial.This article  critically review the non live finger print detection methods and also effectiveness and possible limitations of these methods.

Index Terms— Artificial material , Bio metric systems , Hardware based methods, Non live finger print detection ,  Software based methods.