IMPROVED FINGER PRINT MATCHING USING MINUTIAE SINGULAR POINTS NETWORK

Fingerprints are considered as a unique identification of a person and due to easy access its the best and one of the fastest method used in biometric identification systems. They are unique, so secure and reliable to use and doesnt change for one in a lifetime. And beside these things fingerprint recognition specially using minutiae matching technique is cheap, reliable and accurate up to a satisfactory limits. In this thesis work, we propose a method for fingerprint matching based on minutiae ma tching. However, unlike conventional minutiae matching algorithms our algorithm also takes into account region and line structures that exist between minutiae pairs. This allows for more structural information of the fingerprint to be accounted for thus re sulting in stronger certainty of matching minutiae. Also, since most of the region analysis is preprocessed it does not make the algorithm slower