F2ID: a personal identification system using faces and fingerprints

A real-time automatic personal identification system should meet the conflicting dual requirements of accuracy and response time. In addition, it also should be user-friendly. We introduce a medium-size realtime automatic personal identification system, F2ID, which integrates faces and fingerprints to make a personal identification. F2ID overcomes some of the limitations of face recognition systems and fingerprint verification systems and can achieve a desirable identification accuracy with a tolerable response time. We have tested our system on a limited set of face and fingerprint images collected in a laboratory environment. Experimental results show that that our system meets both the identification accuracy as well as the speed requirements.