Title :
Mathematical morphology approaches for fingerprint thinning
Author :
Espinosa-Duró, Virginia
Author_Institution :
Polytech. Univ. of Catalonia, Mataro, Spain
Abstract :
Our paper describes the design and implementation of a fingerprint thinning algorithm by means of morphological image processing operations, in order to improve the minutiae map involved. The final goal is to incorporate the thinning algorithm proposed with the minutiae extraction algorithm for fingerprint identification systems, developed and presented at IEEE ICCST´01.
Keywords :
feature extraction; fingerprint identification; image thinning; mathematical morphology; fingerprint identification systems; fingerprint thinning algorithm; mathematical morphology; minutiae extraction algorithm; minutiae map; morphological image processing operations; Biometrics; Fingerprint recognition; Image databases; Image matching; Image processing; Lattices; Morphological operations; Morphology; Optical sensors; Pixel;
Conference_Titel :
Security Technology, 2002. Proceedings. 36th Annual 2002 International Carnahan Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7436-3
DOI :
10.1109/CCST.2002.1049224
