A New Fingerprint Orientation Model and Its Applications

Alice Wang

School of Computer Science and IT

Date and time: 11.30am-12.30pm, Friday 24th March, 2006

Venue: 10.08.04

Chair: Xiaodong Li

Abstract:

We propose a novel analytical model to represent fingerprint orientation fields. The new model consists of two trigonometrical polynomials based on the two-dimensional (2D) Fourier Expansion functions which is different from the existing polynomial model. It provides a comprehensive method, for the first time to our knowledge, that can accommodate both the inherent global and local features smoothly without patching descriptions.

In addition to its superior performance in describing fingerprint orientation fields, the analytical model is also shown to be useful in inferring fingerprint singularities. Its other application has demonstrated very promising results in fingerprint classification. The proposed model has provided a framework with a new angle to look at the feature extraction and representation of fingerprints. Our experiment has validated the proposed framework.

About the speaker:

Yi (Alice) Wang is a MBR student in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT University. She is supervised by Dr. Jiankun Hu and Prof. Heiko Schroder. Her current research interest is algorithm development for biometric authentication systems.


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