1.School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094 2.Department of Computer Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275
Abstract A hybrid multi-stage fingerprint matching method is proposed. After the extraction of the image features and the construction of the fingerprint minutiae pattern, a multi-stage fingerprint matching procedure is performed. Firstly, the Euclidean distance between the two corresponding image features is calculated and the preliminary matching is realized by comparing the Euclidean distance. Then, the query minutiae pattern with the template minutiae pattern are directly matched at the second matching stage. Finally, further matching is carried out using multiple pairs of reference minutiae obtained at the second stage. Experimental results indicate that the proposed multi-stage matching method is fast and effective.
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