Abstract

Palmer, L.R.  Al-Tarawneh, M.S.  Dlay, S.S.  Woo, W.L.

This paper summarises a simple procedure for extracting fingerprint minutiae from a digital greyscale image. Many approaches were studied and the best selected and implemented. A sequential binarisation approach was chosen implementing Otsupsilas method for binarisation, a parallel thinning algorithm and then a crossing number approach for the minutiae extraction steps. The algorithm was implemented in a Matlab environment using images from the FVC2004 database. In order to show the performance of this algorithm results are presented and compared to another similar algorithm found in literature.

This paper appears in: Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, 2008. CNSDSP 2008. 6th International Symposium on
Issue Date: 25-25 July 2008
On page(s): 581 - 584
Location: Graz
Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-1875-6
INSPEC Accession Number: 10186012
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/CSNDSP.2008.4610735
Date of Current Version: 29 August 2008

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