Fingerprint liveness detection based on Weber Local image Descriptor

In this paper, we investigate the use of a local discriminative feature space for fingerprint liveness detection. In particular, we rely on the Weber Local Descriptor (WLD), which is a powerful and robust descriptor recently proposed for texture classification. Inspired by Weber's law, it consists of two components, differential excitation and orientation, evaluated for each pixel of the image. Joint histograms of these components are then processed to build the discriminative features used to train a linear kernel SVM classifier. Experimental results with different databases and different sensors show WLD to perform favorably compared to the state-of-the-Art methods in fingerprint liveness detection. In addition, by combining WLD with LPQ (Local Phase Quantization) results further improve significantly. © 2013 IEEE.