A survey of fingerprint recognition systems and their applications

Abstract

Recognition for authentication using biometrics is an intricate pattern recognizing technique. The process is really hard to architect and design, and choosing precise algorithms competent of fetching and extracting significant features and then matching them correctly, particularly in the cases where the quality of the fingerprint images are poor quality image capturing devices are used. Problems also occur where minutia are clearly visible on very small fingerprint area that are not exactly capture by camera. It is a false assumption that fingerprint recognition is a completely settled area regarding the authentication of a person just because it always give the correct identity of an individual. Fingerprint identification remains a very complex and intricate pattern-recognition system for authentication of a person.