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Fingerprint Image Enhancement and Extraction of Minutiae and Orientation

by Shancymol Sojan, R. K. Kulkarni
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 145 - Number 4
Year of Publication: 2016
Authors: Shancymol Sojan, R. K. Kulkarni
10.5120/ijca2016910547

Shancymol Sojan, R. K. Kulkarni . Fingerprint Image Enhancement and Extraction of Minutiae and Orientation. International Journal of Computer Applications. 145, 4 ( Jul 2016), 13-19. DOI=10.5120/ijca2016910547

@article{ 10.5120/ijca2016910547,
author = { Shancymol Sojan, R. K. Kulkarni },
title = { Fingerprint Image Enhancement and Extraction of Minutiae and Orientation },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { Jul 2016 },
volume = { 145 },
number = { 4 },
month = { Jul },
year = { 2016 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 13-19 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume145/number4/25265-2016910547/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2016910547 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A R. K. Kulkarni
%T Fingerprint Image Enhancement and Extraction of Minutiae and Orientation
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 145
%N 4
%P 13-19
%D 2016
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Fingerprints are popular among the biometric – based systems due to ease of acquisition, uniqueness and availability. Fingerprint based biometric systems work by extracting and matching some features on the fingerprint. Due to errors in acquisition phase, it is possible that the scanned fingerprint image is not of a good quality and hence needs to be enhanced before being processed by the feature extracting module. Out of the various features that can be extracted, orientation and minutiae points are the most common ones to be used. This paper discusses some commonly used fingerprint enhancement techniques, the algorithms for minutiae and orientation extraction followed by the comparison of the algorithm on various databases.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

fingerprints minutiae orientation normalizaiton spurious minutiae cross numbering termination bifurcation direction field.