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Master Thesis - Department of Computer Science

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Paired<br />

Minutiae<br />

Minutiae<br />

with<br />

unmatched angle<br />

Unmatched<br />

Minutiae<br />

Unmatched<br />

Minutiae<br />

(a) (b)<br />

(c) (d)<br />

Query fingerprint Minutia<br />

Database fingerprint minutia<br />

Bounding box<br />

Figure A.17: Various cases in minutiae matching. (a) Matched Minutiae; (b) Minutiae<br />

with unmatched angle; (c) and (d) Unmatched minutia.<br />

The values ∆x and ∆y need to be quantized to the nearest bins corresponding to<br />

∆xm and ∆yn.<br />

A.6.2 Minutia Pairing<br />

The minutiae need to be paired or matched if their component or features (x, y, α)<br />

are equal within some tolerance after registration. For minutia pairing, we use a<br />

bounding box (also called tolerance box) <strong>of</strong> specific width and angle tolerance in<br />

order to accommodate the shift in the minutia angle attribute. One bounding box is<br />

drawn for every minutiae <strong>of</strong> query fingerprint image to search for it’s match. We can<br />

obtain four possible cases during matching: (i) Minutiae from both fingerprints match<br />

in all components, hence denoted by paired minutiae (Fig. A.17(a)), (ii) The minutia<br />

from query fingerprint matches with minutia from database in x and y coordinate,<br />

but direction remain unmatched. These minutiae are called minutiae with unmatched<br />

angle (Fig. A.17(b)), (iii) No minutia from database fingerprint falls within bounding<br />

box <strong>of</strong> the minutia from query image (Fig. A.17(c)) and (iv) No minutia from database<br />

fingerprint matches with the minutia from query image (Fig. A.17(d)). In last two<br />

cases, the minutia from query image is denoted by unmatched minutia. In our case,<br />

bounding box size is set to 50. Angle tolerance is set to 0.1 radians.<br />

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