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K-plet and coupled BFS: A graph based fingerprint representation and matching algorithm

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a new fingerprint matching algorithm based on graph matching principles. We define a new representation called K-plet to encode the local neighborhood of each minutiae. We also present CBFS (Coupled BFS), a new dual graph traversal algorithm for consolidating all the local neighborhood matches and analyze its computational complexity. The proposed algorithm is robust to non-linear distortion. Ambiguities in minutiae pairings are solved by employing a dynamic programming based optimization approach. We present an experimental evaluation of the proposed approach and showed that it exceeds the performance of the NIST BOZORTH3 [3] matching algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Biometrics - International Conference, ICB 2006, Proceedings
Pages309-315
Number of pages7
StatePublished - 2006
EventInternational Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2006 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: Jan 5 2006Jan 7 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3832 LNCS

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2006
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period01/5/0601/7/06

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