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Appendix A<br />

Fingerprint Recognition System<br />

Fingerprint is an important biometric signature to identify an individual. Fingerprint<br />

impression is time invariant after adolescence, unless the finger is damaged or bruised<br />

due to accidents or injuries. So, it finds wide applications for all type <strong>of</strong> secured<br />

access, including entry to buildings, missile launch control, nuclear reactor, bank<br />

vaults, confidential files and most recently, for e-Commerce accesses, such as, ATM<br />

counters, web-enabled transactions etc.<br />

A fingerprint is formed from an impression <strong>of</strong> the pattern <strong>of</strong> ridges on a finger.<br />

A ridge is defined as a single curved segment, and a valley is the region between two<br />

adjacent ridges. The minutiae, which are the local discontinuities in the ridge flow<br />

pattern, provide the features that are used for identification. Details such as the type,<br />

orientation, and location <strong>of</strong> minutiae are taken into account when performing minutiae<br />

extraction. The different stages <strong>of</strong> pre-processing for recognition <strong>of</strong> fingerprints are:<br />

1. Image Enhancement<br />

(a) Normalization<br />

(b) Orientation Image Estimation<br />

(c) Frequency Image Estimation<br />

(d) Filtering<br />

2. Image Segmentation<br />

3. Binarization<br />

4. Thinning<br />

5. Minutiae Extraction<br />

6. Minutiae Matching

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