30-11-2009, 03:13 PM
A Hybrid Fingerprint Matcher that uses both minutiae and texture information present in fingerprints has been developed. A set of 8 Gabor filters are used to extract texture information inherent in fingerprints. Minutiae and/or core information is used to align two fingerprints. The hybrid matcher is to exhibit superior matching performance compared to a purely minutiae-based matcher.
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http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/Publicatio...r_PR03.pdf
http://cse.msu.edu/TR/MSUCPS:TR99-33