Mathematical morphology approaches for fingerprint thinning

• Published in: Proceedings. 36th Annual 2002 International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology pp. 43 - 45
• Main Author: Espinosa-Duro, V.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2002
• Subjects: Biometrics; Fingerprint recognition; Image databases; Image matching; Image processing; Lattices; Morphological operations; Morphology; Optical sensors; Pixel

Our paper describes the design and implementation of a fingerprint thinning algorithm by means of morphological image processing operations, in order to improve the minutiae map involved. The final goal is to incorporate the thinning algorithm proposed with the minutiae extraction algorithm for fing...