指紋是獨特且相當可靠的生物特徵，近年來已經被廣泛使用到手持裝置上來做為身分辨識功能。而在某些情況下的指紋辨識，需要將受測者的指紋與龐大的指紋資料庫做比對來辨認出使用者的真實身分，因此比對速度與辨識準確度變成相當重要的課題。
在傳統指紋辨識系統中，指紋比對方式通常是採用區域描述子(local descriptor)配對，這種方法雖然擁有相當不錯的辨識率，但是因為區域描述子間的配對必須嘗試過所有排列組合後，才能得到較好的配對，而這部分的時間通常是非常長的。為了克服配對時間過長的缺點，我們可以利用全域描述子(global descriptor)來加速指紋影像間的配對。但是全域描述子相當難以設計，因此我們提出使用深度卷積神經網路(deep convolutional neural network)的方式，去學習如何將一張指紋影像直接轉換成一個特徵向量，進而製作成全域描述子。
另外一個難題是，指紋影像通常稀少且珍貴，而要使深度卷積神經網路學習效果好，提供夠多的影像是必需的。為了克服這個問題，我們使用了資料擴增(data augmentation)結合課程式學習(curriculum learning)的訓練方式，使得在資料沒有這麼龐大的情況下也能得到不錯的訓練結果。
我們在FVC資料庫上做實驗，並且嘗試了幾種不同的模型以及不同的全域描述子大小。使用Inception-ResNet-v2模型並經過了約52小時的訓練之後，在使用512位元全域描述子的情況下，對於15個FVC資料庫平均配對準確度達到了95.4%，平均EER達到了4.434%。執行速度方面，在有GPU加速的情況下，提取一張影像的全域描述子的時間僅需20毫秒，比對兩個512位元全域描述子的時間僅需2微秒。

Fingerprint is a unique and reliable biometric feature that has been widely used in recent years for personal identification recognition. In some cases, fingerprint recognition needs to match the query fingerprints in a large database to identify the user's identity, so the matching speed and the identification accuracy becomes a very important issue.

In a traditional fingerprint identification system, the fingerprint recognition is done by local descriptors matching and can get a very good recognition rate usually. However, to get the best local descriptor pairs, it needs to try all combinations of all the local descriptors, and its computational cost is high. In order to solve the long matching time, we can use global descriptors to speed up the matching between fingerprint images. However, a global descriptor is quite difficult to design, so we propose to use deep convolutional neural networks to learn how to map a fingerprint image directly into a feature vector, and then convert it into a global descriptor.
Another problem for deep learning fingerprint recognition is that the amount of fingerprint images are usually not enough to have satisfactory learning effect. Therefore, providing enough of training images is important. In order to overcome this problem, we use data augmentation combined with the curriculum learning training methods to get good training results even the training data is not enough.
We perform experiments on the FVC databases, and we have tried several different models and different global descriptor sizes. While using Inception-ResNet-v2 model and training for about 52 hours, we get an average 95.4% accuracy, with an average 4.434% equal error rate (EER) with 512 bits global descriptors on 15 FVC databases. To extract a global descriptor from an image, it takes only 20 milliseconds with GPU acceleration and comparing two 512 bits global descriptors for just 2 microseconds without GPU acceleration.

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