Title :
Fingerprint matching using transformation parameter clustering
Author :
Germain, Robert S. ; Califano, Andrea ; Colville, Scott
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
Fingerprint matching is used in many noncriminal identification applications. Flash, a similarity-searching algorithm akin to geometric hashing, proves suitable for one-to-many matching of fingerprints on large-scale databases
Keywords :
fingerprint identification; very large databases; Flash; fingerprint matching; large-scale databases; noncriminal identification; one-to-many matching; similarity-searching algorithm; transformation parameter clustering; Error analysis; Filtering; Fingerprint recognition; Fingers; Frequency estimation; Indexes; Indexing; Large-scale systems; Size measurement; Spatial databases;
Journal_Title :
Computational Science & Engineering, IEEE
