Fingerprint Verification Using the Texture of Fingerprint Image

Abstract

In this paper, a fingerprint verification method is presented that improves matching accuracy by overcoming the shortcomings of previous methods due to missing some minutiae, non-linear distortions, and rotation and distortion variations. It reduces multi-spectral noise by enhancing a fingerprint image to accurately and reliably determine a reference point and then extract a 129 X 129 block, making the reference point its center. From the 4 co-occurrence matrices four statistical descriptors are computed. Experimental results show that the proposed method is more accurate than other methods the average false acceptance rate (FAR) is 0.62%, the average false rejection rate (FRR) is 0.08%, and the equal error rate (EER) is 0.35%.