A novel scheme for fingerprint identification

Author

Huang, Tsong-Liang ; Liu, Che-Wei ; Lin, Jui-Peng ; Li, Chien-Ying ; Kuo, Ting-Yi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tamkang Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2005

fDate

9-11 May 2005

Firstpage

392

Lastpage

396

Abstract

Fingerprint recognition is one of the most reliable and popular biometric recognition methods in these days. In this paper, we describe a fingerprint recognition system consisting of three main steps - fingerprint image preprocessing, feature extraction and feature matching. The image preprocessing step enhances fingerprint image to obtain binarized ridges, which are needed for feature extraction. Feature points which are also called minutiae such as ridge endings, ridge bifurcations are then extracted, followed by false minutiae elimination. The novel matching algorithm is proposed, which is a fast and robust minutiae-based method.

Keywords

feature extraction; fingerprint identification; biometric recognition; false minutiae elimination; feature extraction; feature matching; fingerprint identification; fingerprint image preprocessing; fingerprint recognition; minutiae-based method; ridge bifurcations; ridge endings; Bifurcation; Biometrics; Feature extraction; Fingerprint recognition; Fingers; Image matching; Iris; Pattern matching; Robustness; Security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Robot Vision, 2005. Proceedings. The 2nd Canadian Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2319-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CRV.2005.10

Filename

1443157