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• D. Maltoni, D. Maio, A.K. Jain and J. Feng, Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition (Third Edition), Springer Nature, 2022.
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "Generating synthetic fingerprints", in Martin Drahanský, Hand-Based Biometrics: Methods and technology, IET, 2018. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, "Fingerprint Sample Synthesis", in Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain (Editors), Encyclopedia of Biometrics (second edition), Springer, 2015.
• R. Cappelli, "SFinGe", in Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain (Editors), Encyclopedia of Biometrics (second edition), Springer, 2015.
• J. Galbally, R. Cappelli, A. Lumini, G. Gonzalez-de-Rivera, D. Maltoni, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, J. Ortega-Garcia and D. Maio, "An Evaluation of Direct Attacks Using Fake Fingers Generated from ISO Templates", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol.31, no.8, pp.725-732, June 2010. Award winning papers from the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 19th International Conference in Pattern Recognition (ICPR). Abstract
• D. Maltoni, D. Maio, A.K. Jain and S. Prabhakar, Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition (Second Edition), Springer (London), 2009.
• R. Cappelli, "Synthetic fingerprint generation", in D. Maltoni, D. Maio, A.K. Jain and S. Prabhakar, Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition (Second Edition), Springer (London), 2009.
• R. Cappelli, "Fingerprint Sample Synthesis", in Stan Li (Editor), Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, 2009. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, "SFinGe", in Stan Li (Editor), Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, 2009. Abstract
• J. Galbally, R. Cappelli, A. Lumini, D. Maltoni and J. Fierrez-Aguilar, "Fake Fingertip Generation from a Minutiae Template", in proceedings 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2008), Tampa, Florida, USA, pp.1-4, December 2008. IBM Best Student Paper Award. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, "Use of Synthetic Data for Evaluating the Quality of Minutia Extraction Algorithms", in proceedings Second NIST Biometric Quality Workshop, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2007.
• R. Cappelli, A. Lumini, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Fingerprint Image Reconstruction from Standard Templates", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence, vol.29, no.9, pp.1489-1503, September 2007. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, A. Lumini, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Evaluating Minutiae Template Vulnerability to Masquerade Attack", in proceedings 5th Workshop on Automatic Identification Advances Technologies (AutoID2007), Alghero, June 2007. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, A. Lumini, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Can Fingerprints be Reconstructed from ISO Templates?", in proceedings International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV2006), Singapore, pp.191-196, December 2006. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "An Improved Noise Model for the Generation of Synthetic Fingerprints", in proceedings Eighth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV2004), Kunming, China, December 2004. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, "SFinGe: an Approach to Synthetic Fingerprint Generation", in proceedings International Workshop on Biometric Technologies (BT2004), Calgary, Canada, pp.147-154, June 2004. Invited paper. Abstract
• D. Maltoni, "Generation of Synthetic Fingerprint Image Databases", in N. Ratha and R. Bolle, Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems, Springer, 2004. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Synthetic Fingerprint-Database Generation", in proceedings 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2002), Québec City, vol.3, pp.744-747, August 2002. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, "SFinGe: Synthetic Fingerprint Generator", in proceedings 12th CardTech/SecurTech (CTST2002), April 2002. Invited. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, A. Erol, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Synthetic Fingerprint-image Generation", in proceedings 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2000), Barcelona, vol.3, pp.475-478, September 2000. Abstract