An energy-based fingerprint matching system

Author

Nagaty, K.A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2004

fDate

5-8 Jan. 2004

Firstpage

706

Lastpage

709

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new energy-based fingerprint matching system which uses both minutiae information available in a fingerprint with the information of the local ridges in their vicinity. The basic idea of this system is to divide the fingerprint matching problem into several small sub-problems that involve the use of image energy minimization for which an iterative schema is devised. At each minimization step this schema optimizes its local energy according to the previous estimate and the observed image features. Energy vectors are produced which represent the fingerprint image. Our system was tested on NIST 4 fingerprints and showed promising results.

Keywords

feature extraction; fingerprint identification; image matching; image representation; iterative methods; minimisation; directional weights; energy-based fingerprint matching system; fingerprint minutiae information; image representing energy vectors; iterative image energy minimization schema; local energy minimization; minutiae vicinity local ridges; minutiae weights; observed image features; Bifurcation; Biometrics; Data mining; Fingerprint recognition; Fingers; Image matching; Interference; NIST; Security; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. CCNC 2004. First IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8145-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2004.1286963

Filename

1286963