Title: A novel approach on cluster-based indexing technique for level-1 and level-2 fingerprint features

Authors: N. Poonguzhali; M. Ezhilarasan

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry 605 014, India ' Department of Information Technology, Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry 605 014, India

Abstract: In recent years, automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) plays a predominant role in personal authentication and verification. Fingerprint indexing is still a challenging issue in an AFIS as the size of database nowadays is huge. This paper proposes a cluster-based indexing on fingerprint features. The feature extraction of a fingerprint image is at three levels: level-1, level-2 and level-3. Fingerprint indexing is broadly classified as correlation-based matching, minutiae-based matching and non-minutiae-based matching. The fingerprint database is clustered using k-means algorithm. The fingerprint indexing methodology projected in this work is based on a combination of level-1 and level-2 features.

Keywords: biometrics; feature extraction; fingerprint matching; ridges; minutiae; k-means clustering; cluster-based indexing; fingerprint features; fingerprint indexing; fingerprint identification; fingerprint images.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCISTUDIES.2014.067033

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies, 2014 Vol.3 No.4, pp.320 - 328

Received: 21 May 2013
Accepted: 11 Dec 2013
Published online: 31 Jan 2015 *

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