• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.217-226
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• 2003

A novel fingerprint ridge feature extraction using sequential labeling of thinned fingerprint image is proposed, which is invariant to position translation, scaling, and rotation. the proposed algorithm labels ridges of thinned fingerprint image sequentially using vertical line that goes through fingerprint core point. Then, we extract a feature from each labeled ridge and the extraction process is based on the type fo the ridge and a minutiae ridge angle in the ridge. The feature extracted through this process enables us to find out the kind of various minutiae and minutiae angle. As a result of the experiment using two thinned fingerprint images, we finally confirm that proposed algorithm is not related to position translation, scaling, and rotation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.468-471
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• 2004

In this paper, a method for classifying fingerprint ridge lines using runlength codes is proposed. To detect feature points(minutiae) in automatic fingerprint identification system(AFIS), classification of fingerprint ridge lines are essential process. The fingerprint ridge lines are classified by run-length coding, and also the end and bifurcation regions in ridge lines are separated. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, detected feature regions including minutiae points and classified fingerprint ridge lines are shown.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.1740-1747
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• 2004

In this paper, we proposed an effective method for detecting fingerprint ridge direction based on the run-length and chain codes. First, a fingerprint image is normalized, and it is thresholded to obtain binary image with foreground and background regions. The foreground regions is composed of fingerprint ridges, and the ridges is encoded with the run-length and chain codes. To detect directional information, the boundary of ridge codes is traced, and curvature is calculated at ecah point of boundary. And the detected direction value is smoothed with appropriate window locally. The proposed method is applied to NIST and FVC2002 fingerprint database to evaluate performance. By the experimental results, the proposed method can be used to obtain ridge direction value in fingerprint image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04b
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• pp.556-558
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• 2000

본 논문은 지문 특징점 들에서 서로 연결되어진 구조 정보를 활용한 지문 매칭 알고리즘에 대해 연구하였다. 매칭에 이용한 특징은 분기점, 단점 그리고 융선의 방향 등이다. 한 융선 위에 존재하는 여러 특징점들의 연결정보를 찾고, 이를 저장하여 기준좌표축(한쌍의 특징)을 검출한다. 서로 일치하는 한 쌍의 특징을 이용해 입력지문을 이동하고 회전하여 원본지문과 일치시킨 후 각 특징들의 위치, 융선 방향이 일치하는 개수에 따라 지문의 동일여부를 판단하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 회전과 이동에 무관한 지문인식이 가능하며, 처리 속도가 빨라 실시간 지문인식에 적용할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.250-255
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• 2001

본 논문은 지문 이미지에 존재하는 애매함을 퍼지 로직을 이용한 표현으로 기존의 융선 추적법의 단점을 보완한다. 지문의 근방의 질을 퍼지 집합의 상대 크기와 근방 명암의 분산을 이용하여 판단한 후 근방의 지문의 질이 좋고 나쁨에 즉각적으로 다른 방법을 사용하여 지문의 융선을 추적하는 새로운 융선 추적법을 제안 설계한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.1-9
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new fingerprint feature extraction method using the convex structure. A fingerprint minutiae flows along the uniform direction and is regarded as a sinusoidal signal across the normal direction. Local maxima of the signal represent coarse thinned one-pixel-wide ridges in which the convex region of the signal correspond to ridges. The proposed fingerprint feature extraction method detects the convex structure and local maxima. Finally fingerprint features are extracted from one-pixel-wide ridges. Because it has no parameter, it is efficient for various fingerprint identification systems.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.33-38
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• 2001

본 논문에서 제안한 특징 벡터 추출방법의 기본 아이디어는 융선 패턴의 지역 방위에 따라 그레이-스케일 영상의 융선을 따라가면서 융선의 방향성을 추출하는 것이다. 융선을 따라가는 시작점은 그레이-스케일 영상을 일정한 격자로 나누어서 격자 안의 중심점으로 결정한다. 그 다음에 융선을 따라가면서 여러 방향의 방향성 특징 벡터를 추출하고, 추출된 방향성 특징 벡터를 4방향성 특징 벡터로 라벨링한다. 실험은 4개의 지문에서 구성한 124개의 특징 패턴을 가지고 하였으며, 하나의 지문은 31개의 특징패턴으로 구성하였다. 그 결과 학습된 지문을 인식하는 능력이 매우 우수함을 보여주었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.67-73
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• 2005

Recently, the social requirement of personal identification techniques has been increasing. Fingerprint recognition is one of the biometries methods that has been widely used for this requirement. This paper proposes the fingerprint matching algorithm that uses the information of the ridge shapes of minutiae. In which, the data of the ridge shape are expressed in one-dimensional discrete-time signals. In our algorithm, we obtain one-dimensional discrete-time signals for ridge at every minutiae from input and registered fingerprints, and find pairs of minutia which have the similar ridge shape by comparing input fingerprint with registered fingerprint, thereafter we find candidates of rotation angle and moving displacement from the pairs of similar minutia, and obtain the final rotation angle and moving displacement value from those candidates set by using clustering method. After that, we align an input fingerprint by using obtained data, and calculate the matching rate by counting the number of corresponded pairs of minutia within the overlapped area of an input and registered fingerprints. As a result of experiment, false rejection rate(FRR) of $18.0\%$ at false acceptance rate(FAR) of $0.79\%$ is achieved.

• 대한치주과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.100-100
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• 2004

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.155-161
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• 2002

The nail bed is located under the finger nail. The arched portions of the nail bed, which contain a large number of capillary loops, are separated by the valley of the nail bed. The valley of the nail bed does not contain capillary loops. Light is scattered when it propagates through the dermis of skin, and human blood strongly absorbs the light with proper wavelength. By use of the optical properties of the nail bed, we propose an optical technique which extracts the nail bed image of the finger nail. After achieving nail bed images of each individual, we correlated between them. The correlation outputs show that we can identify individuals by comparing the peak heights of the correlation outputs.