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An Effective Human Fingerprint Segmentation Method using Watershed Algorithm

by Pinaki Pratim Acharjya, Dibyendu Ghoshal
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 53 - Number 13
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: Pinaki Pratim Acharjya, Dibyendu Ghoshal
10.5120/8482-2422

Pinaki Pratim Acharjya, Dibyendu Ghoshal . An Effective Human Fingerprint Segmentation Method using Watershed Algorithm. International Journal of Computer Applications. 53, 13 ( September 2012), 23-26. DOI=10.5120/8482-2422

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author = { Pinaki Pratim Acharjya, Dibyendu Ghoshal },
title = { An Effective Human Fingerprint Segmentation Method using Watershed Algorithm },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { September 2012 },
volume = { 53 },
number = { 13 },
month = { September },
year = { 2012 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 23-26 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume53/number13/8482-2422/ },
doi = { 10.5120/8482-2422 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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Abstract

For more than a century fingerprints ware considered to be the identifying mark for the human beings. Fingerprint is a protected human organ and an effective biometric approach to human or personal identification. It acts like living passwords for humans as its texture is stable throughout the human life. Fingerprints are an impression left by the friction ridges of human finger. This paper contains a very useful image segmentation method for fingerprints segmentation by taking the idea from friction ridges of human finger and also with an effective storage capacity for the segmented images. Watershed algorithm depends on ridges to perform a proper segmentation, a property that is often fulfilled in contour detection where the boundaries of the objects are expressed as ridges. The tool we have used is MAT LAB, typically using the MAT LAB editor.

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Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Image segmentation Fingerprints Watershed Algorithm

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