Tangent direction computation in ridge line following of gray scale fingerprint images

Most Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AfIS) is based on minutiae matching due to its uniqueness. Minutiae are essentially terminations and bifurcations of the ridge lines that constitute a fingerprint pattern. Maio and Maltoni (1997) proposed a method to detect minutiae in gray scale fin...

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Main Authors: Sulong, Siti Masrina, Sulong, Ghazali
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2000
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/10984/
http://eprints.utm.my/10984/1/SitiMasrinaSulong2000_TangentDirectionComputationRidgeLine.pdf
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author Sulong, Siti Masrina
Sulong, Ghazali
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description Most Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AfIS) is based on minutiae matching due to its uniqueness. Minutiae are essentially terminations and bifurcations of the ridge lines that constitute a fingerprint pattern. Maio and Maltoni (1997) proposed a method to detect minutiae in gray scale fingerprint images based on ridge line following which is to crail the ridge line according to the fingerprint directional image. In order to determine the direction of the ridges, computation of tangent direction is a must. Maio and Maltoni applied least-squared minimization technique to obtain the tangent direction. In this paper, we implement Sobel mask technique as an alternative to least-square minimization.
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spelling utm-109842010-11-16T05:18:18Z http://eprints.utm.my/10984/ Tangent direction computation in ridge line following of gray scale fingerprint images Sulong, Siti Masrina Sulong, Ghazali QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science TR Photography Most Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AfIS) is based on minutiae matching due to its uniqueness. Minutiae are essentially terminations and bifurcations of the ridge lines that constitute a fingerprint pattern. Maio and Maltoni (1997) proposed a method to detect minutiae in gray scale fingerprint images based on ridge line following which is to crail the ridge line according to the fingerprint directional image. In order to determine the direction of the ridges, computation of tangent direction is a must. Maio and Maltoni applied least-squared minimization technique to obtain the tangent direction. In this paper, we implement Sobel mask technique as an alternative to least-square minimization. 2000-11 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/10984/1/SitiMasrinaSulong2000_TangentDirectionComputationRidgeLine.pdf Sulong, Siti Masrina and Sulong, Ghazali (2000) Tangent direction computation in ridge line following of gray scale fingerprint images. In: National Conference on Telecommunication Technology 2000, 20th - 21st Nov. 2000, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Johor Bahru.
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
TR Photography
Sulong, Siti Masrina
Sulong, Ghazali
Tangent direction computation in ridge line following of gray scale fingerprint images
title Tangent direction computation in ridge line following of gray scale fingerprint images
title_full Tangent direction computation in ridge line following of gray scale fingerprint images
title_fullStr Tangent direction computation in ridge line following of gray scale fingerprint images
title_full_unstemmed Tangent direction computation in ridge line following of gray scale fingerprint images
title_short Tangent direction computation in ridge line following of gray scale fingerprint images
title_sort tangent direction computation in ridge line following of gray scale fingerprint images
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
TR Photography
url http://eprints.utm.my/10984/
http://eprints.utm.my/10984/1/SitiMasrinaSulong2000_TangentDirectionComputationRidgeLine.pdf