Fingerprint Liveness Detection Using Difference Co-occurrence Matrix Based Texture Features

Abstract

Fingerprint authentication systems have been widely deployed in both civilian and government applications, however, whether fingerprint authentication systems is security or not has been an important issue under fraudulent attempts through artificial spoof fingerprints. In this paper, inspired by popular feature descriptors such as gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and Gradient (difference matrix (DM)), we propose a novel software-based fingerprint liveness detection algorithm called difference co-occurrence matrix (DCM). In doing so, quantization operation is firstly conducted on the images. DMs are constructed by calculating difference matrices of horizontal and vertical pixel values of images; difference co-occurrence arrays are constructed from the difference matrices between adjacent pixels. To reduce the influence of abnormal pixel values, truncation is used for DMs. Then, we compute four parameters (Angular Second Moment, Entropy, Inverse Differential Moment and Correlation) used as feature vectors of fingerprint images. For the first time in the fingerprint liveness detection, we construct eight difference co-occurrence matrices and extract texture features from processed DCMs. Finally, SVM classifier is used to predict classification accuracy. The experimental results reveal that our proposed method can achieve more accurate classification compared with the best algorithms of 2013 Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition, while being able to recognize spoofed fingerprints with a better degree of accuracy.