Fingerprint feature extraction

• Main Author: Tin Tin Aye.
• Other Authors: Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electronic systems::Biometrics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/3601
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This dissertation focuses on extraction of minutiae from the gray fingerprint images directly without going through the usual binarization and thinning processes. Multilayer feedforward neural network is used for extraction of minutiae. Two types of most commonly used minutiae, bifurcations and ridg...