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A Study of Hough Transform-based Fingerprint Alignment Algorithms

by Cynthia S. Mlambo, Mmamelatelo E. Mathekga, Fulufhelo V. Nelwamondo
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 103 - Number 8
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: Cynthia S. Mlambo, Mmamelatelo E. Mathekga, Fulufhelo V. Nelwamondo
10.5120/18091-9158

Cynthia S. Mlambo, Mmamelatelo E. Mathekga, Fulufhelo V. Nelwamondo . A Study of Hough Transform-based Fingerprint Alignment Algorithms. International Journal of Computer Applications. 103, 8 ( October 2014), 1-8. DOI=10.5120/18091-9158

@article{ 10.5120/18091-9158,
author = { Cynthia S. Mlambo, Mmamelatelo E. Mathekga, Fulufhelo V. Nelwamondo },
title = { A Study of Hough Transform-based Fingerprint Alignment Algorithms },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { October 2014 },
volume = { 103 },
number = { 8 },
month = { October },
year = { 2014 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 1-8 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume103/number8/18091-9158/ },
doi = { 10.5120/18091-9158 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Cynthia S. Mlambo
%A Mmamelatelo E. Mathekga
%A Fulufhelo V. Nelwamondo
%T A Study of Hough Transform-based Fingerprint Alignment Algorithms
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 103
%N 8
%P 1-8
%D 2014
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

This paper classify existing Hough Transform fingerprint alignment algorithms and compare their performance to determine the one that gives optimal alignment results (translation and rotation). The classification is performed by considering the implementation of each algorithm. The comparison is performed by considering the alignment results computed using each group of algorithms when varying number of minutiae points, rotation angle, and translation. In addition, the memory usage, computing time and accuracy are taken into consideration. The experiments were performed on a small database where fingerprints were captured in different orientations and locations and on the public database FVC2004. Three classes of Hough Transform-Based approaches were classified as the Local Match Based Alignment(LMBA), Discretized Rotation Based Alignment(DRBA) and Matching Pair Based Alignment (MPBA). The results revealed good accuracy on all three approaches, however, the computing time and memory usage affected the performance of each approach. The LMBA approach perform better than the DRBA and the MPBA approaches on minutiae points set with larger rotation and small number of points. The DRBA approach was found to perform better with minutiae points with large amount of translation, and the computational time was less than that of LMBA and the MPBA approaches. However, the memory usage required in DRBA and MPBA for the accumulator array is greater than memory required in LMBA.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Fingerprints alignment translation rotation