Fingerprint recognition using wavelet features

A new method of fingerprint recognition based on features extracted from the wavelet transform of the discrete image is introduced. The wavelet features are extracted directly from the gray-scale fingerprint image with no pre-processing (i.e. image enhancement, directional filtering, ridge segmentation, ridge thinning and minutiae extraction). The proposed method has been tested on a small fingerprint database using the k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) classifier. The very high recognition rates achieved show that the proposed method may constitutes an efficient solution for a small-scale fingerprint recognition system.

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