Fingerprint recognition using matlab

• Acknowledgement – – – ..  2

Chapter ONE

INTRODUCTION

•   – – – –  6
• 1.1INTRODUCTION   – – .  7
• 1.2Biometrics   – – – –  8
• 1.3Biometrics Authentication Techniques   – .  8
• 1.4How Biometric Technologies Work   – – .  8 1.
• 4.1Enrollment   – – ..  9 1.
• 4.2Verification   – – – – ..  10 1.
• 4.3Identification   – – – – ..  10 1.
• 4.4Matches Are Based on Threshold Settings   – ..  11
• 1.5Leading Biometric Technologies   – – –  12
• 1.6Fingerprints as a Biometric   – – – – ..  13 1.
• 6.1Fingerprint Representation   – – – .  14 1.
• 6.2Minutiae   – – –  14

Chapter TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

•  Motivation for the project   – –  16
• 2.1Problem Definition   – – – –  17
• 2.2Motivation for the Project   – –  18
• 2.3About the Project   – – – – ..  18

Chapter THREE

SYSTEM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION

• System design – – .  20
• 2.1System Level Design   – – – .  21
• 2.2Algorithm Level Design   – – ..  22

Chapter FOUR

SYSTEM TESTING AND EVALUATION

•  Fingerprint image preprocessing   – – – .  24
• 4.1Fingerprint Image Enhancement – – ..  25 4.
• 1.1Histogram Equalization:   – – – –  26 4.
• 1.2Fingerprint Enhancement by Fourier Transform   – – ..  28
• 4.2Fingerprint Image Binarization   – – – ..  30
• 4.3Fingerprint Image Segmentation (orientation flow estimate) – – – – ..  32 4.
• 3.1Block direction estimation – – – ..  32 3.
• 3.2ROI extraction by Morphological operation – ..  34

Chapter FIVE

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

• Minutiae extraction   – – – – .  36
• 5.1Fingerprint Ridge Thinning – – – – ..  37
• 5.2Minutia Marking   – – – –  39 Chapter six: Minutiae post-processing   – – –  42 False Minutia Removal   – – – ..  43 Chapter seven: Minutiae match   – – .  46
• 6.1Alignment Stage – – – –  48
• 6.2Match Stage   – – – .  50 Chapter eight: System evaluation and conclusion   – –  51
• 8.1Evaluation of the system – – ..  52
• 8.2Conclusion   – – – .  54 Appendix – – –  55 REFERENCES – – – – .  74