• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.256-265
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• 2003

To improve reliability and practicality, a fingerprint-based biometric system needs to be robust to rotations of an input fingerprint and the processing speed should be fast. Accordingly, this paper presents a new filterbank-based fingerprint feature extraction and matching method that is robust to diverse rotations and reasonably fast. The proposed method fast extracts fingerprint features using a directional filter bank, which effectively decomposes an image into several subband outputs Since matching is also performed rapidly based on the Euclidean distance between the corresponding feature vectors, the overall processing speed is so fast. To make the system robust to rotations, the proposed method generates a set of feature vectors considering various rotations of an input fingerprint and then matches these feature vectors with the enrolled single template feature vector. Experimental results demonstrated the high speed of the proposed method in feature extraction and matching, along with a comparable verification accuracy to that of other leading techniques.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.43-48
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• 2016

We propose plain fingerprint classification based on a core stochastic algorithm that effectively uses a core stochastic model, acquiring more fingerprint minutiae and direction, in order to increase matching performance. The proposed core stochastic algorithm uses core presence/absence and contains a ridge direction and distribution map. Simulations show that the fingerprint classification accuracy is improved by more than 14%, on average, compared to other algorithms.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.1027-1036
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• 2012

Among various biometrics recognition systems, statistical fingerprint recognition matching methods are considered using minutiae on fingerprints. We define similarity distance measures based on the coordinate and angle of the minutiae, and suggest a fingerprint recognition model following statistical distributions. We could obtain confidence intervals of similarity distance for the same and different persons, and optimal thresholds to minimize two kinds of error rates for distance distributions. It is found that the two confidence intervals of the same and different persons are not overlapped and that the optimal threshold locates between two confidence intervals. Hence an alternative statistical matching method can be suggested by using nonoverlapped confidence intervals and optimal thresholds obtained from the distributions of similarity distances.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.55.5-55
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• 2001

The MST (Minimum Spanning Tree) matching algorithm had been used for searching the part accord points extracted from the gray level fingerprint image. The method, however, had some limitations. To obtain the relationship between enrolled and inputted fingerprint, the MST was used to generate the tree graph that represent the unique graph for given fingerprint data. From the graph, the accord points are estimated. However, the shape of the graph highly depends on the positions of the minutiae. If there are some pseudo minutiae caused by noise, the shape of the graph will be different In this paper, to overcome the limitations of the MST, we proposed CRM (Center of Rotation Method) algorithm that found the true part accord points. The proposed method is based on the assumption ...

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.61-68
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• 2002

This paper presents a new matching algorithm for fingerprint recognition, which is robust to image translation. The basic idea of this paper is to estimate the translation vector of an imput fingerprint image using N minutiae at which the gradient of the ridge direction field is large. Using the estimated translation vector we select minutiae irrelevant to the translation. We experimentally prove that the presented algorithm results in good performance even if there are large translation and pseudo-minutiae.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.852-862
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• 2017

In this work a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)-based feature dimensionality reduced approach for fingerprint matching is proposed. The DCT is applied on a small region around the core point of fingerprint image. The performance of our proposed method is evaluated on a small database of Bologna University and two large databases of FVC2000. A dimensionally reduced feature vector is formed using only approximately 19%, 7%, and 6% DCT coefficients for the three databases from Bologna University and FVC2000, respectively. We compared the results of our proposed method with the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) method, the rotated wavelet filters (RWFs) method, and a combination of DWT+RWF and DWT+(HL+LH) subbands of RWF. The proposed method reduces the false acceptance rate from approximately 18% to 4% on DB1 (Database of Bologna University), approximately 29% to 16% on DB2 (FVC2000), and approximately 26% to 17% on DB3 (FVC2000) over the DWT based feature extraction method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.611-620
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• 1989

In this paper, Fingerprint matching method which is able to confirm one's identity using microcomputer is discussed. In matching method, fingerprint image is thinned and we extracted feature point data which is composed of position and direction of end-point and branch-point. Identification is conducted by decision of disagreement between reference finger print and input fingerprint us ing this extracted data. After averaging and binariztion process, thining method is conducted. Restoration process is carried out to seek precise feature pointdatd. We compensate position difference of reference fingerprint and input fingerprint, which is divied end-point and branch-point, and translated and rotated its position. Using this compensdate difference of position, we decide whether fingerp-print identity is true or not.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.1-8
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• 2000

Point pattern matching schemes for finger print recognition do not guarantee robust matching performance for fingerprint Images of poor quality We present a finger print recognition scheme, where transformation parameters of matched ridge pairs are estimated by Hough transform and the matching hypothesis is verified by a new measure of the matching degree using selective directional information Proposed method may exhibit extremely low FAR(False accept rate) while maintaining low reject rate even for the Images of poor quality because of the robustness to the variation of minutia points.

• KSCI Review
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.265-271
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a new automatic fingerprint identification system that identifies individuals in large databases. The algorithm consists of three steps: preprocessing, classification, and matching, in the classification, we present a new classification technique based on the statistical approach for directional image distribution. In matching, we also describe improved minutiae candidate pair extraction algorithm that is faster and more accurate than existing algorithm. In matching stage, we extract fingerprint minutiaes from its thinned image for accuracy, and introduce matching process using minutiae linking information. Introduction of linking information into the minutiae matching process is a simple but accurate way, which solves the problem of reference minutiae pair selection in comparison stage of two fingerprints quickly. This algorithm is invariant to translation and rotation of fingerprint. The proposed system was tested on 1000 fingerprint images from the semiconductor chip style scanner. Experimental results reveal false acceptance rate is decreased and genuine acceptance rate is increased than existing method.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.914-926
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• 2013

Among the recent security systems, security system with fingerprint recognition gets many people's interests through the strengths such as exclusiveness, convenience, etc, in comparison with other security systems. The most important matters for fingerprint recognition system are reliability of matching between the fingerprint in database and user's fingerprint and rapid process of image processing algorithms used for fingerprint recognition. The existing fingerprint recognition system reduces the processing time by removing some processes in the feature extraction algorithms but has weakness of a reliability. This paper realizes the fingerprint recognition algorithm using MAMS(Multi-Access Memory System) for both the rapid processing time and the reliability in feature extraction and matching accuracy. Reliability of this process is verified by the correlation between serial processor's results and MAMS-PP64's results. The performance of the method using MAMS-PP64 is 1.56 times faster than compared serial processor.