FingerCode for identity verification using fingerprint and smart card

Identity verification is very important in the world today and it is used in our everyday life. Systems like smart card identity verification has its weakness and it can be easily abused. The integration between fingerprint verification and National Registration Identity Card (MyKad) verification elevates the security in identification to the highest level as fingerprints are unique from one another and there is only one MyKad for each citizen in Malaysia. Fingerprints contain a lot of information and they are called minutiae. These minutiae are captured and stored inside FingerCode. FingerCode contains the information of the fingerprint core. The core of the fingerprints are detected using complex filtering and it is cropped and normalized to avoid unwanted noise. The core is segmented into sectors during the tessellation process. After that, the cropped fingerprint core is convolved with 8-directions of Gabor filters to get the flow of the ridges and furrows. Each Gabor filtered result is saved as a FingerCode. The verification success rate is 90% out of 40 attempts from 10 different people. There are a total of 100 fingerprints from 10 people which is converted into FingerCode in the database. The processing time for MyKad verification is 0.62seconds. The average processing time for the fingerprint verification is 1.3 sec.

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