• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.108-113
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• 2007

The classification of fingerprint images is to classify fingerprint images into varies fingerprint types, it is very important in automatic fingerprint recognition. In this paper, a new singular points detection technique was presented. A direction uniform measure is defined to describe the changes of direction fields in a certain neighborhood of fingerprint images. Singular points can be detected by adopting the measure. It should be pointed out that singular points in accurate positions would be obtained in this ways. And an improved Poincare exponential algorithm is presented to identify core points and triangle points. In this paper. making use of 102 experimental fingerprint images datas and attained 7.8% classification errors. This was better than experimental result of abstract [9]. It is possible to use on-line fingerprint images classification.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.5
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• pp.497-502
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• 2003

Fingerprint classification plays a role of reduction of precise joining time and improvement of the accuracy in a large volume of database. Patterns of fingerprint are classified as 5 patterns : left loop, right loop, arch, whorl, and tented arch by numbers and the location of core point and delta point. The existing fingerprint classification is useful in a captured fingerprint image of core point and delta point using paper and ink. However, this system is unapplicable in modern Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) because of problems such as size of input and way of input. To solve the problem, this study is to suggest the way of being able to improve accuracy of fingerprint by fingerprint classification based on the entropy of ridges using fingerprint captured mage of core point and prove this through the experiment.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.5
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• pp.653-662
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• 2002

Fingerprint recognition is a task to find a matching pattern in a database for a specific persons fingerprint. To accomplish this task, preprocessing, classification, and matching steps are taken for a large-scale fingerprint database but only the matching step is taken without classification for a small-scale database. The primary matching method is based on minutiae (ridge ending point, bifurcation). This matching method, however, requires a very complex computation to extract minutiae and match minutiae-to-minutiae accurately due to translation, rotation, nonlinear deformation of fingerprint and occurrence of spurious minutiae. In addition, this method requires a laborious preprocessing step in order to improve the quality of fingerprint Images. This paper proposes a new simple method to eliminate these problems. With this method, Gabor variance is used instead of minutiae for fingerprint recognition. The Gabor variance is computed from Gabor features that result from filtering a fingerprint image through Gabor filter. In this paper, this method is described and its test result is shown, demonstrating the potential of using this new method for fingerprint recognition.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.55-63
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• 2008

Ridge orientations of fingerprint image are crucial informations in many parts of fingerprint recognition such as enhancement, matching and classification. Therefore it is essential to extract the ridge orientations of image accurately because it directly affects the performance of the system. The two main properties of ridge orientation are 1) global characteristic(gradual change in whole part of fingerprint) and 2) local characteristic(abrupt change around core and delta points). When we only consider the local characteristic, estimated ridge orientations are well around singular points but not robust to noise. When the global characteristic is only considered, to estimate ridge orientation is robust to noise but cannot represent the orientation around singular points. In this paper, we propose a novel method for estimating ridge orientation which represents local characteristic specifically as well as be robust to noise. We reduce the noise caused by scar using iterative outlier rejection. We apply adaptive measurement resolution in each fingerprint area to estimate the ridge orientation around singular points accurately. We evaluate the performance of proposed method using synthetic fingerprint and FVC 2002 DB. We compare the accuracy of ridge orientation. The performance of fingerprint authentication system is evaluated using FVC 2002 DB.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10d
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• pp.460-462
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• 2002

본 논문은 융선 방향의 화소값 변화와 융선의 수직 방향 화소값 변화의 차이를 이용하여 지문영상의 부영역 화질을 제거대상 영역(Removable Block)과 융선의 흐름이 불명확한 영역(Obscure Block), 융선의 방향성이 명확한 영역(Clear Block) 세 가지로 분류하였다. RB영역은 특징점 추출과정에서 제외 하였으며 OB 영역은 필터의 방향을 달리한 다수의 게이버(Gabor) 필터의 적용으로 처리하였고, CB 영역은 게이버 필터의 방향을 융선의 방향으로 하여 한번의 수행하였다. FVC2002(The Second Fingerprint Verification Competition) DB3 SetA 지문필터링을 영상을 대상으로 한 실험에서 부영역의 화질을 고려한 경우 EER(Equal Error Rate)이 14.31%의 처리속도 향상을 확인할 수 있었다.