• Biomedical Science Letters
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.197-200
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• 2010

All citizens over 17 year old living in Korea have to be fingerprinted to obtain a certificate of resident registration. For this reason, human identification through fingerprints has been used actively in crime scene investigation. The fingerprint is so unique that it is one of the most certain ways to identify oneself and it can differentiate between genetically identical twins. Fingerprints gained in crime scene indicate a direction of criminal investigation in conjecturing a suspect. Fingerprints help a reunion of family got scattered for a long time and make it possible to get a personal identification for missing person who met with natural calamity. We developed a new fingerprinting method using safranine O, so as to develop fingerprints on the adhesive tapes and non-porous papers in various physical environments. Results were compared to the preexisting fingerprinting method, the minutiae numbers of fingerprints were greatly increased in our newly developed safranine O fingerprinting method. This newly developed safranine O method showed a quantity and quality comparable to the preexisting fingerprinting method routinely used in these days. In our hands, the safranine O fingerprinting method is another easy and obvious choice when the forensic case sample is available for fingerprints on the adhesive tapes and non-porous papers.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.11c
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• pp.807-811
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• 1999

자동 지문 인식을 위한 특징점 추출 과정에서 얻은 특징점에는 지문 획득시 발생하는 잡음과 전처리 과정으로 인한 정보의 손실에 의해 상당량의 의사 특징점이 포함되어 있다. 본 논문에서는 특징점들로 구성된 지문의 특징량에서 잡음이라고 할 수 있는 의사 특징점을 제거하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 후보 특징점 목록에서 세선화된 지문 화상의 구조적 특성을 고려하여 복원 가능 영역에 속하고 의사 특징점이라고 간주되는 특징점을 선택한다. 이와 같이 선택된 특징점이 세선화 화상에 위치하는 영역은 잡음에 의해 잘못 세선화된 부분이기 때문에 해당 영역을 올바르게 재구성하고 후보 특징점 목록에서 선택한 특징점을 삭제한다. 재구성된 세선화 화상에서 지문 원화상의 부영역별 방향과 지문의 구조적 특성을 근거로 후보 특징점이 위치한 영역의 패턴을 검사하여 진짜 특징점만을 선택함으로써 의사 특징점을 제거하게 된다. NIST sdb 14의 지문 화상을 알고리즘에 적용한 결과는 정추출율 손실 대비 높은 오추출율 개선을 얻었음을 보여주고 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.103-113
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• 2003

We must enhance a fingerprint image to improve the performance of a fingerprint recognition. Because of this reason, many researches were achieved about the fingerprint image enhancement. Representative method is to use Gabor-Filter among them. However GF has the weakness which a processing hour takes long. In this paper, we proposed Half Gabor Filter (HGF) to enhance the fingerprint image fast in the on-line. The HGF, however, can make calculation much simpler, as well as both minutiae-extraction rate and recognition rate. On the other hand, the fingerprint image to enhance using HGF has almost same with the case effectiveness to apply GF. In this paper, we confirme it mathematically and experimentally.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.10-19
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• 2003

As the technical demand for biometrics is increasing, users expect that fingerprint recognition systems are operable with various fingerprint readers. However, current commercial off-the-shelf fingerprint recognition systems are no interoperable due to the lack of standardization in application program interfaces for fingerprint readers. A cross-matching fingerprint recognition system is a person authentication system based on fingerprints and utilizing different types of fingerprint readers. It should be able to overcome variations in fingerprint images acquired by different readers, such as the size, resolution, contrast of images. The purpose of this research is to develop across-matching fingerprint recognition system for fingerprint research of different sensing mechanism. The fingerprint readers tested in this study are optical, semiconductor and thermal sensor modules, and the prpoposed cross-matching system utilizes both a minutiae-based similarity and a ridge count-based similarity in matching fingerprint images acquired by different sensors.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.4A
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• pp.345-355
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• 2002

This paper describes a new method of directional filter-based analysis for fingerprint enhancement. Fingerprint cages can be represented by direction field of regular structure of ridge patterns. The dominant directional component of ridge plays a very important role in pre-processing steps of fingerprint image analysis such as ridge's linking and noise removal for minutiae extraction. A directional filter bank analyzes input image into directional subband images and synthesizes them to the perfectly reconstructed image. In this paper, a new fingerprint enhancement algorithm based on a directional filter bank is proposed. The algorithm decomposes the fingerprint image into subband images in the analysis stage, accomplishes an enhance procedure by processing subband images in the enhance stage and synthesizes them to the enhanced image in the synthesis stage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.173-176
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• 2003

지문은 종생불변성, 만인부동성, 그리고 사용상의 편리함 때문에 신원인증을 위한 생체인식에 많이 사용되고 있다. 최근에는 기하학구조에 기반한 특이점 매칭방식이 제안되어 인식성능이 매우 높고 잡음에 강한 특성이 있으나 매칭 회수가 많아 인식속도가 느린 단점이 있다. 따라서 기존의 방식은 소수의 지문에 대한 1:다 매칭이나 1:1매칭에 주로 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 문제점들을 개선하기 위하여 생체 면역계의 자기-비자기 인식 능력에 주목하였다. 생체 면역계는 자기-비자기의 구별 능력을 바탕으로 바이러스나병원균 등의 낮선 외부침입자로부터 자신을 보호하고 침입자를 식별, 제거하는 시스템이다. 본 논문에서는 생체 면역계를 이루는 면역세포 중의 하나인 세포독성 T세포의 생성과정에서 자기, 비자기를 구별하기 위한 MHC 인식부를 형성하는 과정에 착안한 빠르고 신뢰성 있는 지문 인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 방식은 지문에 존재하는 특이점(minutiae)인식을 통해 1단계로 global 패턴을 생성하고 2단계로 기하학적인 구조를 만들며, 인식시 global 패턴을 인식한 MHC 인식부에 대해서만 2차 local 매칭을 수행함으로써 매칭 속도가 매우 빠르며 지문의 비틀림이나 회전 등에 대하여 강인하게 인식된다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.10
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• pp.1783-1798
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• 2011

Recently, a cryptographic construct, called fuzzy vault, has been proposed for crypto-biometric systems, and some implementations for fingerprint have been reported to protect the stored fingerprint template by hiding the fingerprint features. In this paper, we implement the fuzzy fingerprint vault, combining fingerprint verification and fuzzy vault scheme to protect fingerprint templates. To implement the fuzzy fingerprint vault as a complete system, we have to consider several practical issues such as automatic fingerprint alignment, verification accuracy, execution time, error correcting code, etc. In addition, to protect the fuzzy fingerprint vault from the correlation attack, we propose an approach to insert chaffs in a structured way such that distinguishing the fingerprint minutiae and the chaff points obtained from two applications is computationally hard. Based on the experimental results, we confirm that the proposed approach provides higher security than inserting chaffs randomly without a significant degradation of the verification accuracy, and our implementation can be used for real applications.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.97-102
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• 2016

Image stitching is a process of combining two or more images with overlapping area to create a panorama of input images, which is considered as an active research area in computer vision, especially in the field of augmented reality with 360 degree images. Image stitching techniques can be categorized into two general approaches: direct and feature based techniques. Direct techniques compare all the pixel intensities of the images with each other, while feature based approaches aim to determine a relationship between the images through distinct features extracted from the images. This paper proposes a novel image stitching method based on feature pixels with approximated clustering filter. When the features are extracted from input images, we calculate a meaning of the minutiae, and apply an effective feature extraction algorithm to improve the processing time. With the evaluation of the results, the proposed method is corresponding accurate and effective, compared to the previous approaches.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.446-449
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• 2000

A direct RTI(Rotation and translation invariant) fingerprint identification is proposed using the GCMs(generalized complex moments) and Gabor filter-based features from the grey level fingerprint around core point. The core point is located as reference point for the translation invariant matching. And its symmetry axis is detected for the rotation invariant matching from its neighboring region centered at the core point. And then, fingerprint is divided into non-overlapping blocks with respect to the core point and, in contrast to minutiae-based method using various processing steps, features are directly extracted from the blocked grey level fingerprint using Gabor filter, which provides information contained in a particular orientation in the image. The Proposed fingerprint identification is based on the Euclidean distance of the corresponding Gabor features between the input and the template fingerprint. Experiments are conducted on 300 ${\times}$ 300 fingerprints obtained from the CMOS sensor with 500 dpi resolution, and the proposed method could obtain 97% identification rate.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.687-690
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• 2003

지식 정보화 시대에 들어서면서부터 정보는 개인이나 일부 기관에 국한됨이 없이 중요시되고 있지만, 그 경계는 나날이 모호해지고 정보의 양은 급속하게 늘어가고 있는 것이 오늘날의 현실이다. 이러한 시대적 환경은 보안의 중요성이 크게 부각되어 생체인식 기술에 대한 관심을 높아지게 만들었다. 생체인식(Biometrics)분야 중에서도 지문 인식(Recognition)은 많은 연구가 이루어졌으나 개선할 점이 여전히 남아있다. 특히, 정확성 및 속도향상이라는 측면이 그렇다고 할 수 있겠다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 지문 인증(Authentication)시스템의 지문 영상(Image)의 식별 능력을 증가시키고 다수의 지문 영상에서도 좋은 결과를 가져올 수 있는 고유한 특징이 될 수 있는 요소들(Factor)을 추출하여 진보된 지문인식 시스템을 구현하는 것을 궁극적인 목표로 하고 있다. 따라서, 지금까지의 관련 연구를 바탕으로 지문 인식 시스템을 구현하는 것을 궁극적인 목표로 하고 있다. 따라서. 지금까지의 관련 연구를 바탕으로 지문 인식 시스템의 성능 향상을 위해서 핵심적인 minutiae reference point, 방향 정보의 추출 방법을 제안하고 인식의 종결부라고 할 수 있는 정합(matching)에 관에서 논한 다음, 마지막으로 결론 및 향후 과제로서 개선할 부분을 제시한다.