1. A method for determining fingerprint liveness, comprising the steps of: obtaining a fingerprint image; extracting a region of interest from the fingerprint image, comprising: dividing the fingerprint image into blocks; determining a variance for each image block; removing image blocks based upon the variance and a predetermined threshold; determining a center point of the remaining image; and extracting the region of interest about the center point; generating a histogram of the region of interest; determining a statistical feature of the histogram; and determining liveness of the fingerprint image based upon the statistical feature.