Infant-Prints: Fingerprints for Reducing Infant Mortality

Joshua J Engelsma, Debayan Deb, Anil Jain, Anjoo Bhatnagar, Prem Sewak Sudhish; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2019, pp. 67-74

Abstract


In developing countries around the world, a multitude of infants continue to suffer and die from vaccine-preventable diseases, and malnutrition. Lamentably, the lack of any official identification documentation makes it exceedingly difficult to prevent these infant deaths. To solve this global crisis, we propose Infant-Prints which is comprised of (i) a custom, compact, low-cost (85 USD), high-resolution (1,900 ppi) fingerprint reader, (ii) a high-resolution fingerprint matcher, and (iii) a mobile application for search and verification for the infant fingerprint. Using Infant-Prints, we have collected a longitudinal database of infant fingerprints and demonstrate its ability to perform accurate and reliable recognition of infants enrolled at the ages 0-3 months, in time for effective delivery of critical vaccinations and nutritional supplements (TAR=90% @ FAR = 0.1% for infants older than 8 weeks).

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@InProceedings{Engelsma_2019_CVPR_Workshops,
author = {J Engelsma, Joshua and Deb, Debayan and Jain, Anil and Bhatnagar, Anjoo and Sewak Sudhish, Prem},
title = {Infant-Prints: Fingerprints for Reducing Infant Mortality},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},
month = {June},
year = {2019}
}