@inproceedings{4594ddddef864e019bd514d978fdec1a,
title = "Verification Failures: Assessing the Sample Quality of Fingerprints collected in an African Election Setting",
abstract = "The use of biometric technology has become an integral part of elections in Africa, the primary aim being delivery of credible elections. Fingerprint verification of eligible voters is central to this development. Deployment of fingerprint verification technology at elections has not been without its challenges for African countries. Failed verification incidents have been recorded in countries like Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. A case is made on the need to identify the causes of these incidents before any reasonable solution can be proposed. This research investigates some of the possible causes by analysing the quality of sample fingerprints from a new dataset of an African population collected in election settings. NIST{\textquoteright}s NFIQ 2.2 was used for the fingerprint quality assessment with initial analyses reported in this work.",
keywords = "Biometrics, Fingerprint Verification Failures, African Elections, Fingerprint Quality",
author = "Oluwafemi Samuel and Iain Martin and Ludovic Magerand",
note = "Funding Information: This research is funded by the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), Nigeria.",
year = "2022",
month = sep,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1109/BIOSIG55365.2022.9896973",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781665476676",
series = "Lecture Notes in Informatics",
publisher = "IEEE",
editor = "Arslan Br{\"o}mme and Naser Damer and Marta Gomez-Barrero and Kiran Raja and Christian Rathgeb and Sequeira, {Ana F.} and Massimiliano Todisco and Andreas Uhl",
booktitle = "BIOSIG 2022",
}