A fingerprint recognizer using fuzzy evolutionary programming

Author

Van Le, Tu ; Ka Yeung Cheung ; Minh Ha Nguyen

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Canberra Univ., ACT, Australia

fYear

2001

fDate

6-6 Jan. 2001

Abstract

A fingerprint recognition system is built with two principal components: the fingerprint administrator and the fingerprint recognizer. Fingerprints are identified by their special features, such as ridge endings, ridge bifurcation, short ridges and ridge enclosures, which are collectively called the minutiae. The fingerprint administrator uses the method of gray-scale ridge tracing backed up by a validating procedure to extract the minutiae of fingerprints. The fingerprint recognizer employs the technique of fuzzy evolutionary programming to match the minutiae of an input fingerprint with those from a database. Experimental results show the methods used are highly effective.

Keywords

evolutionary computation; feature extraction; fingerprint identification; fuzzy logic; image matching; database; feature matching; fingerprint administrator; fingerprint recognition system; fingerprint recognizer; fuzzy evolutionary programming; gray-scale ridge tracing; minutiae extraction; ridge bifurcation; ridge enclosures; ridge endings; short ridges; validation procedure; Bifurcation; Data mining; Databases; Electronic mail; Fingerprint recognition; Fuzzy systems; Genetic programming; Pattern matching; Pixel; Programming profession;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2001. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Maui, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0981-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2001.926322

Filename

926322