Fingerprint matching method and apparatus using fingerprint minutiae and fingerprint binary images

• US 20080085039A1
• Filed: 10/30/2007
• Published: 04/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Chosun University (Chosun University), Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Industry-Academic Foundation Cooperation
• Inventors: Pan, Sung, Moon, Ki, Chae, Seung-Hoon, Moon, Dae, Sohn, Sung, Chung, Kyo
• Application Number:
  US11/980,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20080085039A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/125
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1365 Matching; Classification

Abstract

Provided is a fingerprint matching method and apparatus using fingerprint minutiae and fingerprint binary images. The method includes: constructing a template fingerprint database by extracting minutiae information and a binary image of a first fingerprint image; and extracting minutiae information and a binary image of a second fingerprint image to be authenticated and performing authentication by aligning the extracted minutiae information and the binary image of the second fingerprint image with data in the template fingerprint database. Accordingly, the fingerprint matching using the fingerprint binary images is additionally performed, thereby reducing a false acceptance rate (FAR) compared to a conventional minutia-based fingerprint authentication method.

Claims

1. A fingerprint matching method using fingerprint minutiae and fingerprint binary images, comprising:

constructing a template fingerprint database by extracting minutiae information and a binary image of a first fingerprint image; and

extracting minutiae information and a binary image of a second fingerprint image to be authenticated and performing authentication by aligning the extracted minutiae information and the binary image of the second fingerprint image with data in the template fingerprint database.

2. The fingerprint matching method of claim 1, wherein the extracting minutiae information and a binary image of a second fingerprint image to be authenticated and performing authentication comprises:

obtaining a difference between the two minutiae based on the minutiae information on the first and the second fingerprint images;

aligning the two minutiae and the binary images according to the difference; and

performing the authentication by aligning the aligned two minutiae with each other and the binary images with each other.

3. The fingerprint matching method of claim 2, wherein the difference between the two minutiae is a difference of positions and directions between two minutiae.

4. The fingerprint matching method of claim 1, wherein the binary image is binary data generated in the minutiae extraction operation.

5. The fingerprint matching method of claim 2, wherein the binary image is binary data generated in the minutiae extraction operation.

6. The fingerprint matching method of claim 2, wherein the performing the authentication further comprises performing the authentication by combining a result of calculating a similarity value between the two minutiae and a result of calculating a similarity value between the binary images.

7. A fingerprint matching apparatus using fingerprint minutiae and fingerprint binary images, comprising:

an extractor receiving a first template fingerprint image and a second fingerprint image to be authenticated and extracting minutiae information and binary images to be output from the first and the second fingerprint image;

an align parameter searching unit obtaining a difference between the two minutiae based on the minutiae information on the first and the second fingerprint images;

an alignment unit aligning the two minutiae and the binary images based on the difference; and

a matching unit performing authentication by aligning the two aligned minutiae and the binary images.

8. The fingerprint matching apparatus of claim 7, wherein the align parameter searching unit outputs a difference of positions and directions between the two minutiae as the difference between the two minutiae.

9. The fingerprint matching apparatus of claim 7, wherein the align parameter searching unit outputs binary data generated in the minutiae extraction operation as the fingerprint binary image.

10. The fingerprint matching apparatus of claim 7, further comprising a combination unit performing the authentication by combining a result of calculating a similarity value between the two minutiae and a result of calculating a similarity valued between the binary images.