Currently there is no publicly available smartphone captured touchless fingerprint images and equivalent touch based fingerprint database. “IIT Bombay, Touchless and Touch Based Fingerprint Database” is a set of fingerprint data prepared by Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay, Mumbai, India. The dataset consist of 800 touchless fingerprint images of 200 subjects, 4 samples per subject having image size 170 x 260. It also consist of 800 touch based fingerprint images of the same 200 subjects having image size 260 x 330. The touchless fingerprints are captured using Lenovo Vibe k5 plus smartphone with the developed Android App. The images are captured using embedded flash for illumination. Touch based fingerprints are captured using eNBioScan-C1 (HFDU08) Scanner. The aim of preparing and sharing such a Database is to help researchers in their endeavours in comparing the performance of touchless and touch based fingerprint biometric systems.

The database will be made available freely for the researchers.

• Access request to the IIT-Bombay Touchless Fingerprint database must be directed to one of the following E-mails:
  • parmeshwar.birajdar@ves.ac.in
  • hariameet27@gmail.com
• Applicants should manually fill, sign, scan and attach the application form to the given email address.
• Upon receipt of an executed copy of the signed application form, access instructions will be given.
• For faster processing of your request, please be sure to use your institutional e-mail to send the form.