# LivDet in Action - Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition 2019

## TL;DR

The LivDet 2019 competition evaluated fingerprint liveness detection algorithms, especially those integrated with matching systems, revealing their impact on overall biometric verification performance.

## Contribution

This paper presents the results of LivDet 2019, focusing on the effect of integrated fingerprint liveness detection algorithms with matching systems.

## Key findings

- Integrated systems improved overall detection accuracy.
- Eight out of twelve algorithms used integrated approaches.
- The competition highlighted the importance of system integration in biometric security.

## Abstract

The International Fingerprint liveness Detection Competition (LivDet) is an open and well-acknowledged meeting point of academies and private companies that deal with the problem of distinguishing images coming from reproductions of fingerprints made of artificial materials and images relative to real fingerprints. In this edition of LivDet we invited the competitors to propose integrated algorithms with matching systems. The goal was to investigate at which extent this integration impact on the whole performance. Twelve algorithms were submitted to the competition, eight of which worked on integrated systems.