Fingerprint preclassification using key-points

A new idea of fingerprint preclassification named the key-point recognition method (KMF) is proposed which only pays attention to whether there is a general feature key-point in a certain area and takes no notice of what the feature is. Using this method, an automatic fingerprint recognition system has been developed, which is characterized by fewer requirements imposed on the preprocessing, lower sensitivity to the noise, higher capacity and parallelism being compared with other traditional ones. The system can list out the most promising fingerprints as a preclassifier