An Introduction to Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection

This chapter provides an introduction to Presentation Attack Detection (PAD), also coined anti-spoofing, in fingerprint biometrics, and summarizes key developments for that purpose in the last two decades. After a review of selected literature in the field, we also revisit the potential of quality assessment for presentation attack detection. We believe that, beyond the interest that the described techniques may intrinsically have by themselves, the case study presented may serve as an example of how to develop and validate fingerprint PAD techniques based on common and publicly available benchmarks and following a systematic and replicable protocol.