SAF-AFIS: SIFT-based Alignment Free Approach for an Automatic Fingerprint Identification System

Automatic fingerprint recognition is a trending topic both in research and industrial communities, and is still challenging. In this work, we propose an automatic identification system based on fingerprints where no prior alignment is required. The proposed architecture is based on Gabor filters and SIFT descriptors, with an identification process inspired from image mosaicking. The systems achieves good results compared to other related systems.