Fingerprint matching using ridges

Traditionally, fingerprint matching is minutia-based, which establishes the minutiae correspondences between two fingerprints. In this paper, a novel fingerprint matching algorithm is presented, which establishes both the ridge correspondences and the minutia correspondences between two fingerprints. First N initial substructure (including a minutia and adjacent ridges) pairs are found by a novel alignment method. Based on each of these substructure pairs, ridge matching is performed by incrementally matching ridges and minutiae, and then a matching score is computed. The maximum one of the N scores is used as the final matching score of two fingerprints. Preliminary results on FVC2002 databases show that ridge matching approach performs comparably with the minutia-based one.

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