Cleopas Officer Angaye¹, Oluwole Charles Akinyokun² and Gabriel Babatunde Iwasokun², ¹National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Nigeria and ²Federal University of Technology, Nigeria

In this paper, a minutiae-based algorithm for fingerprint pattern recognition and matching is proposed. The algorithm uses the distance between the minutiae and core points to determine the pattern matching scores for fingerprint images. Experiments were conducted using FVC2002 fingerprint database comprising four datasets of images of different sources and qualities. False Match Rate (FMR), False Non-Match Rate (FNMR) and the Average Matching Time (AMT) were the statistics generated for testing and measuring the performance of the proposed algorithm. The comparative analysis of the proposed algorithm and some existing minutiae based algorithms was carried out as well. The findings from the experimental study were presented, interpreted and some conclusions were drawn.

Minutiae, Segmentation, Normalization, Gabor Filter, Binarization, Bifurcation