Although most fingerprint matching methods utilize minutia points and/or texture of fingerprint images as fingerprint features, the frequency spectrum is also a useful feature since a fingerprint is composed of ridge patterns with its inherent frequency band. We propose a novel CNNbased method for extracting fingerprint features from texture, minutiae, and frequency spectrum. In order to extract effective texture features from local regions around the minutiae, the minutia attention module is introduced to the proposed method. We also propose new data augmentation methods, which takes into account the characteristics of fingerprint images to increase the number of images during training since we use only a public dataset in training, which includes a few fingerprint classes. Through a set of experiments using FVC2004 DB1 and DB2, we demonstrated that the proposed method exhibits the efficient performance on fingerprint verification compared with a commercial fingerprint matching software and the conventional method.
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