Authors
K JAIN Anil, SALIL Prabhakar, L Hong, S Pankanti
Publication date
2000
Journal
IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Volume
9
Issue
5
Pages
846-859
Description
Biometrics-based verification, especially fingerprint-based identification, is receiving a lot of attention. There are two major shortcomings of the traditional approaches to fingerprint representation. For a considerable fraction of population, the representations based on explicit detection of complete ridge structures in the fingerprint are difficult to extract automatically. The widely used minutiae-based representation does not utilize a significant component of the rich discriminatory information available in the fingerprints. Local ridge structures cannot be completely characterized by minutiae. Further, minutiae-based matching has difficulty in quickly matching two fingerprint images containing a different number of unregistered minutiae points. The proposed filter-based algorithm uses a bank of Gabor filters to capture both local and global details in a fingerprint as a compact fixed length FingerCode. The fingerprint …
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AK Jain, S Prabhakar, L Hong, S Pankanti - IEEE transactions on Image Processing, 2000