DEVELOPMENT OF A REAL TIME FINGERPRINT AUTHENTICATION/ IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR STUDENTS’ RECORD

Authors

  • OY Ogundepo DEPT. OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGR., UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES, EFFURUN, DELTA STATE, NIGERIA
  • IOA Omeiza DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, ILORIN, KWARA STATE, NIGERIA
  • MA Akpojaro DEPT. OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGR., UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES, EFFURUN, DELTA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

Human fingerprints are rich in details called minutiae, which can be used as identification marks for fingerprint verification. This paper presents the development of a real time fingerprint authentication system built as an application of an optical fingerprint scanner (“SecuGenâ€) and its free software developers’ kit (SDK). To achieve good minutiae extraction in fingerprints with varying quality, Gabor filter was designed and incorporated for image enhancement. The matching algorithm used in the SecuGen’s SDK is capable of finding the correspondences between input minutia pattern and the stored template minutia pattern without resorting to exhaustive search. Gabor filter is used to enhance the unique features of the fingerprint before these features are compared for authentication and recognition of a person. The result shows the improvement in accuracy level of the fingerprint authentication system when the enhanced (filtered) image is used as compared to when a noisy image is used.

 

Keywords: Biometrics; Fingerprint Recognition; Gabor filters; Fingerprint Authentication/Verification; Fingerprint Identification

 

http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/njt.v38i1.26

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Published

2018-12-30

Issue

Vol. 38 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Computer, Telecommunications, Software, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

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DEVELOPMENT OF A REAL TIME FINGERPRINT AUTHENTICATION/ IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR STUDENTS’ RECORD. (2018). Nigerian Journal of Technology, 38(1), 212-222. https://nijotech.com/index.php/nijotech/article/view/1933