Digiti Sonus: Advanced Interactive Fingerprint Sonification Using Visual Feature Analysis

Yoon Chung Han, Byeong-jun Han, and Matthew Wright

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper presents a framework that transforms fingerprint patterns intoaudio. We describe Digiti Sonus, an interactive installation performingfingerprint sonification and visualization, including novel techniques forrepresenting user-intended fingerprint expression as audio parameters. In orderto enable personalized sonification and broaden timbre of sound, theinstallation employs sound synthesis based on various visual feature analysissuch as minutiae extraction, area, angle, and push pressure of fingerprints.The sonification results are discussed and the diverse timbres of soundretrieved from different fingerprints are compared.

Citation:

Yoon Chung Han, Byeong-jun Han, and Matthew Wright. 2013. Digiti Sonus: Advanced Interactive Fingerprint Sonification Using Visual Feature Analysis. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178548

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Han2013a,
 abstract = {This paper presents a framework that transforms fingerprint patterns intoaudio. We describe Digiti Sonus, an interactive installation performingfingerprint sonification and visualization, including novel techniques forrepresenting user-intended fingerprint expression as audio parameters. In orderto enable personalized sonification and broaden timbre of sound, theinstallation employs sound synthesis based on various visual feature analysissuch as minutiae extraction, area, angle, and push pressure of fingerprints.The sonification results are discussed and the diverse timbres of soundretrieved from different fingerprints are compared.},
 address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
 author = {Yoon Chung Han and Byeong-jun Han and Matthew Wright},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178548},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Fingerprint, Fingerprint sonification, interactive sonification, sound synthesis, biometric data},
 month = {May},
 pages = {136--141},
 publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
 title = {Digiti Sonus: Advanced Interactive Fingerprint Sonification Using Visual Feature Analysis},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_170.pdf},
 year = {2013}
}