SURVEY ON FINGER PRINT RECOGNITION SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED CLOUD SECURITY

Biometrics is a rapidly evolving technology and is being widely used in authentication systems in today's networked world. In an era, where the hardware and software services are available on cloud, the application of biometrics has increased a lot. The availability of inexpensive hardware devices like fingerprint scanner in mobile phones have also contributed a lot in biometrics authentication systems. Fingerprint authentication is possibly the most sophisticated method of all biometric techniques and has been thoroughly verified through various applications. Even features such as persons gait, face or signature may change with passage of time and may be fabricated or imitated. However a fingerprint is completely unique to an individual and stayed unchanged for lifetime. This paper discusses the various aspects and methods to be applied for the fingerprint-based identification system.