FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION

-BY SANJANA ROSARIO(1RV12EC134)

ABSTRACT:
Finger Print Recognition [ FPR] is a unique technique that is used to avoid intruders and protect
information. It's applications are wide and vary from home protection systems to protection of
confidential and sensitive information at the higher levels of authority. Information systems play a
very major role in today's world and it's accessibility is determined by mechanisms such as
fingerprint mechanism. But to reduce the complexity in developing these systems we need to
choose between the choices of algorithms. There are numerous techniques are available for finger
print recognition. One of them is Artificial Neural Networks( ANN). Artificial neural networks provide
solutions to problems where the existing solutions are either too computationally intensive or do
not exist. Neural networks work on the principle of being trained to recognize a pattern and then
classify it. Therefore, pattern recognition is a suitable application of neural networks for which it
offers speed advantage over other networks.
The first task to the neural network would be feature extraction. The features of the fingerprint is
unique to each individual and can be mapped as coordinates using algorithms that will be further
discussed. The difficulty faced in this aspect is the matching of different sized (unregistered)
minutiae patterns and local ridge structures. The second task would be the training of the neural
network. There are numerous and specific types of networks such as multilayer perceptron,
backpropagation network, counter propagation network, Hopfield networks, etc that can be used
for the training. Each one of them along with corresponging advantages and disadvantages will be
discussed further in the next report.
Here the input is an image, the thumb impression, of a person is got from the device thumb
scanner and they are displayed in a separate software tool. When the matching process is invoked
then the neural program will first find out, to which class of thumb image the input image
corresponds to. This classification check is done, in order to reduce the search time between
numerous images. After, the category of the input is found then the next stage of the matching
process will occur. Here, the original matching is done as by taking the pixel positions of that input
image and these positions are matched with all the images in that particular class. If the images
pixel positions are matched with the input image that is the indication of the signal success, and the
person who belongs to the input image is considered an authorized person.
REFERENCES:
International Journal Of Computational Engineering Research (ijceronline.com) Vol. 2 Issue.
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http://www.slideshare.net/alessandrobaffa/fingerprints-recognition-using-neural-networks
http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/Publications/Fingerprint/JainEtAlIdentityAuthUsingFp_ProcIE
EE97.pdf