Analysis of minutia extraction techniques in fingerprint recognition.

Abstract

With the increasing emphasis on the automatic personal identification applications, biometrics especially fingerprint identification is the most reliable and widely accepted technique. A very important step in automatic fingerprint recognition system is to automatically and reliably extract minutia from the input fingerprint images. In this paper, we have evaluated two models of minutia extraction systems which are particularly very much different. It is proposed to use Minutiae Extraction using Crossing Numbers(MECN) and Minutiae Extraction using Midpoint Ridge Contour Method.(MEMRCM). Finally We have compared the performance of minutiae extraction algorithms using the number of minutiae in both the cases.