DocumentCode :
2492819
Title :
Design of FPGA-based Hardware Accelerators for On-line Fingerprint Matcher Systems
Author :
Fons, Mariano ; Fons, Francisco ; Canto, Enrique
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., Electr. & Autom. Eng., Rovira i Virgili Univ.
fYear :
0
fDate :
0-0 0
Firstpage :
333
Lastpage :
336
Abstract :
Nowadays fingerprints are the most widely used biometric characteristics in automatic personal authentication or identification systems. Most human recognition systems use those fingertip discontinuities called minutiae and mainly based on the ridge endings and the ridge bifurcations of the skin to perform fingerprint matching. A fingerprint pattern is thus defined by the spatial distribution of its distinctive traits. Matching two fingerprints in minutiae-based representations becomes a point pattern matching, and it consists of finding the alignment and correspondences between pairs of minutia points in both sets. Several algorithms have been proposed in the last decades to efficiently match two fingerprint minutiae sets. This paper describes the design of FPGA-based accelerators responsible for performing those computationally expensive tasks needed in the fingerprint matching process. The acceleration results obtained when partitioning the application in hardware and software tasks permits to make the conventional purely software-oriented and off-line matching algorithms suitable for on-line applications
Keywords :
field programmable gate arrays; fingerprint identification; logic partitioning; pattern matching; FPGA; automatic personal authentication; biometric characteristics; fingerprint minutiae; fingerprint pattern; fingertip discontinuities; hardware accelerators; human recognition systems; minutiae-based representations; online fingerprint matcher; pattern matching; personal identification; Application software; Authentication; Bifurcation; Biometrics; Fingerprint recognition; Hardware; Humans; Partitioning algorithms; Pattern matching; Skin;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Research in Microelectronics and Electronics 2006, Ph. D.
Conference_Location :
Otranto
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0157-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/RME.2006.1689964
Filename :
1689964
Link To Document :
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