An application of fuzzy logic and neural network to fingerprint recognition

  • Authors:
  • Ching-Tang Hsieh;Chia-Shing Hu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering Tamkang University, Taipei County, Taiwan, Republic of China;Department of Electrical Engineering Tamkang University, Taipei County, Taiwan, Republic of China

  • Venue:
  • TELE-INFO'05 Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS International Conference on Telecommunications and Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Because fingerprint patterns are fuzzy in nature and ridge endings are changed easily by scares, we try to only use ridge bifurcation as fingerprints minutiae and also design a fuzzy feature image encoder by using cone membership function to represent the structure of ridge bifurcation features extracted from fingerprint. Then, we integrate the fuzzy encoder with back-propagation neural network (BPNN) as a recognizer which has variable fault tolerances for fingerprint recognition. Experimental results show that the proposed fingerprint recognition system is robust, reliable and rapid.