A Survey Paper on Fingerprint Recognition and Cross Matching

Abstract

As common as largely used various technical methods, identification of fingerprint is presently growing as a very popular biometric recognition approach, primarily due to its uniqueness. Process of performing a sharp observation and thereby finding out the most appropriate fingerprint match from the given set of data is what actually meant by the term fingerprint recognition. For getting the proper match output using fingerprint recognition systems, a wide variety of theoretical methods and algorithms were proposed and are quite common for last long years. Each system use minutia feature as the key feature for similarity identification because of its accuracy. Some researchers used features like ridge map, core point feature other than the minutia to get better performance and accuracy. Nowadays cross matching of fingerprint from different sensors are also a research topic due to the emergence of new contactless sensors. This survey paper includes the discussion about fingerprint recognition and cross matching techniques.Here different approaches are studied in terms of accuracy and performance.