2015/04/17 by Anil K. Jain, Jain, Anil K., Sunpreet S. Arora +9
Computer Science · #Biometric Identification and Security
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1504.04651
With a number of emerging applications requiring biometric recognition of\nchildren (e.g., tracking child vaccination schedules, identifying missing\nchildren and preventing newborn baby swaps in hospitals), investigating the\ntemporal stability of biometric recognition accuracy for children is important.\nThe persistence of recognition accuracy of three of the most commonly used\nbiometric traits (fingerprints, face and iris) has been investigated for\nadults. However, persistence of biometric recognition accuracy has not been\nstudied systematically for children in the age group of 0-4 years. Given that\nvery young children are often uncooperative and do not comprehend or follow\ninstructions, in our opinion, among all biometric modalities, fingerprints are\nthe most viable for recognizing children. This is primarily because it is\neasier to capture fingerprints of young children compared to other biometric\ntraits, e.g., iris, where a child needs to stare directly towards the camera to\ninitiate iris capture. In this report, we detail our initiative to investigate\nthe persistence of fingerprint recognition for children in the age group of 0-4\nyears. Based on preliminary results obtained for the data collected in the\nfirst phase of our study, use of fingerprints for recognition of 0-4 year-old\nchildren appears promising.\n