• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.622-624
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• 2005

대규모 지문인식 시스템에서 비교해야할 지문의 수를 줄이기 위해서 지문분류는 필수적인 과정이다. 최근 이진분류기인 지지 벡터 기계(Support Vector Machine: SVM)를 이용한 지문분류 기법이 많이 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 다중부류 지문분류에 적합하도록 자기 구성 지도(Self-Organizing Map:SOM)를 이용하여 OVA(One-Vs-All) SVM들을 결합하는 지문분류 기법을 제안한다. SOM을 이용하여 OVA SVM들을 동적으로 결합하기 위한 결합 지도를 생성하여 지문분류 성능을 높인다. 지문분류에 있어 대표적인 NIST-4 지문 데이터베이스를 대상으로 Jain이 구축한 FingerCode 데이터베이스에 제안하는 방법을 적용하여 $1.8\%$의 거부율에서 $90.5\%$의 분류율을 획득하였으며, 기존의 결합 방법인 승자독식(Winner-takes-all)과 다수결 투표(Majority vote)보다 높은 성능을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.132-144
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• 2017

The fingerprint classification of categorizing fingerprints by classes should be used in order to improve the processing speed and accuracy in a fingerprint recognition system using a large database. The fingerprint classification methods extract features from the fingerprint ridges of a fingerprint and classify the fingerprint using learning and reasoning techniques based on the classes defined according to the flow and shape of the fingerprint ridges. In earlier days, many researches have been conducted using NIST database acquired by pressing or rolling finger against a paper. However, as automated systems using live-scan scanners for fingerprint recognition have become popular, researches using fingerprint images obtained by live-scan scanners, such as fingerprint data provided by FVC, are increasing. And these days the methods of fingerprint classification using Deep Learning have proposed. In this paper, we investigate the trends of fingerprint classification technology and compare the classification performance of the technology. We desire to assist fingerprint classification research with increasing large fingerprint database in improving the performance by mentioning the necessity of fingerprint classification research with consideration for fingerprint images based on live-scan scanners and analyzing fingerprint classification using deep learning.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.886-895
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• 2006

Fingerprint classification reduces the number of matches required in automated fingerprint identification systems by categorizing fingerprints into a predefined class. Support vector machines (SVMs), widely used in pattern classification, have produced a high accuracy rate when performing fingerprint classification. In order to effectively apply SVMs to multi-class fingerprint classification systems, we propose a novel method in which SVMs are generated with the one-vs-all (OVA) scheme and dynamically ordered with $na{\ddot{i}}ve$ Bayes classifiers. More specifically, it uses representative fingerprint features such as the FingerCode, singularities and pseudo ridges to train the OVA SVMs and $na{\ddot{i}}ve$ Bayes classifiers. The proposed method has been validated on the NIST-4 database and produced a classification accuracy of 90.8% for 5-class classification. Especially, it has effectively managed tie problems usually occurred in applying OVA SVMs to multi-class classification.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.33-38
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• 2005

지문분류는 대규모 인증시스템에 사용되는 지문 데이터 베이스를 종류별로 인덱싱 하거나 인식 시스템에 다양하게 쓰이는 매우 중요한 방법이다. 지문은 일반적으로 융선의 전체모양 등 전역적인 특징을 기반으로 분류하며, 분류방법에는 규칙기반 접근, 구문론적 접근, 구조적 접근, 통계적 접근, 신경망 기반 접근 등이 있다. 본 논문에서는 지문의 구조적인 특징을 바탕으로 관찰되는 특징의 상태가 매순간 변화하는 확률론적 정보추출 방식인 마코프 모델을 적용한 지문분류 방법을 제안한다. 지문 이미지의 전처리 과정을 거친 후 각 클래스 분류를 위해 대표 융선을 찾아 방향정보를 추출하고 이를 이용하여 5가지 클래스로 분류될 수 있도록 설계하였다. 좋은품질(Good)과 나쁜품질(Poor)의 데이터를 포함한 훈련집합을 사용하여 각 클래스별로 학습된 마코프 모델은 임의의 지문이미지 분류시 높은 분류율을 보였다. 또한 기존의 구조적 접근방법에 비하여 다양한 품질의 지문이미지의 방향성 정보를 이용한 확률론적 방법이기 때문에 예외적인 지문이미지 분류시 잘 적용될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.2-3
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• 2017

지문분류 기술은 대용량 데이터베이스 기반 1:N 지문인식 시스템에서 지문의 형상에 따라 4개 또는 5개 이상의 클래스로 1차분류를 하여 지문인식의 속도 및 정확도를 개선하기 위해 필수로 사용되는 주요 기술이다. 과학수사, 범죄예방, 전자여권 시스템 등에 활용되고 있는 대규모 지문인식 시스템에서 지문분류 작업을 수행하면 데이터베이스 전체를 탐색하는데 필요한 시간을 "1/클래스의 수"로 줄일 수 있기 때문에, 지문분류 기술은 대용량 데이터베이스 시스템에서는 필수 요소이다. 본 논문에서는 지문분류와 관련된 국내외 기술을 분석하고 지문분류 기술의 발전 동향을 살펴본다.

• 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 KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.11
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• pp.1136-1146
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• 2005

Fingerprint classification is useful in an automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) to reduce the matching time by categorizing fingerprints. Based on Henry system that classifies fingerprints into S classes, various techniques such as neural networks and support vector machines (SVMs) have been widely used to classify fingerprints. Especially, SVMs of high classification performance have been actively investigated. Since the SVM is binary classifier, we propose a novel classifier-combination model, multiple decision templates (MuDTs), to classily fingerprints. The method extracts several clusters of different characteristics from samples of a class and constructs a suitable combination model to overcome the restriction of the single model, which may be subject to the ambiguous images. With the experimental results of the proposed on the FingerCodes extracted from NIST Database4 for the five-class and four-class problems, we have achieved a classification accuracy of $90.4\%\;and\;94.9\%\;with\;1.8\%$ rejection, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.545-551
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• 2003

Henry System which is a traditional fingerprint classification model is difficult to apply to a modem Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). To tackle this problem, this study is to apply algorithm for an An Ensemble Fingerprint Classroom System using changes of gradient of ridge in order to improve precise joining speed of a large volume of database. The existing classification system, Henry System, is useful in a captured fingerprint image of core point and delta point using paper and ink. However, the Henry System is unapplicable in modem Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) because of problems such as size of input sensor and way of input. This study is to suggest an Ensemble Fingerprint Classroom System which can classify 5 basic patterns of Henry System in uncaptured delta image using changes of gradient of ridge. The proposed fingerprint classification technique will make an improvement of precise joining speed by reducing data volume.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.1
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• pp.29-34
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• 2002

Fingerprint recognition technology was studied by classification and matching. In general, there are five different classifications left loop, right loop, whore, arch, and tented-arch. These classifications are used to determine which class an individual's fingerprint belong to, thereby identifying the individual's fingerprint pattern. The result of this classification, which is sent to the large fingerprint database as an index, helps reduce the matching time and enhance the accuracy of fingerprint matching. The existing fingerprint classification method relies on the number and location of cores and delta points called singular points. The drawback of this method is the lack of accuracy stemming from the classification difficulty involving unclear and/or partially-erased fingerprints. The current paper presents an efficient classification method to rectify the problem associated with identifying Singular points from unclear fingerprints. This method, which is based on Gabor filter's unique characteristics for magnifying directional patterns and frequency range selections, improves fingerprint classification accuracy significantly. In this paper, this method is described and its test result is presented for verification.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.143-151
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• 2010

Fingerprint classification is a step to increase the efficiency of an 1:N fingerprint recognition system and plays a role to reduce the matching time of fingerprint and to increase accuracy of recognition. It is difficult to classify fingerprints, because the ridge pattern of each fingerprint class has an overlapping characteristic with more than one class, fingerprint images may include a lot of noise and an input condition is an exceptional case. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to design a stochastic model and to accomplish fingerprint classification using a directional characteristic of fingerprints for an effective classification of various qualities. We compute the directional value by searching a fingerprint ridge pixel by pixel and extract a directional characteristic by merging a computed directional value by fixed pixels unit. The modified Markov model of each fingerprint class is generated using Markov model which is a stochastic information extraction and a recognition method by extracted directional characteristic. The weight list of classification model of each class is decided by analyzing the state transition matrixes of the generated Markov model of each class and the optimized value which improves the performance of fingerprint classification using GA (Genetic Algorithm) is estimated. The performance of the optimized classification model by GA is superior to the model before the optimization by the experiment result of applying the fingerprint database of various qualities to the optimized model by GA. And the proposed method effectively achieved fingerprint classification to exceptional input conditions because this approach is independent of the existence and nonexistence of singular points by the result of analyzing the fingerprint database which is used to the experiments.