Title
Fingerprint verification system based on curvelet transform and possibility theory
Abstract
fingerprint feature extraction step represents the success key of the fingerprint verification process. In a matching step, the good processing of those features would generate a measure that reflects more accurately the similarity degree between the input fingerprint and the template. In our study, we propose a novel fingerprint feature extraction method based on the Curvelet transform to reduce the dimensionality of the fingerprint image and to improve the verification rate. Like all extractors, the features which are generated by the Curvelet transform are usually imprecise and reflect an uncertain representation. Therefore, we proposed to analyze these features by a possibility theory to deal with imprecise and uncertain aspect in our novel fingerprint matching method. Thus, this paper focused on presenting a novel fingerprint features extraction method and a novel matching method. The features extraction method consists of two main steps: decompose the fingerprint image into a set of sub-bands by the Curvelet transform and extract the most discriminative statistical features of these sub-bands. A possibility based representation of those statistical features would be achieved by a possibility theory. So, the proposed fingerprint matching method is based on the use of the possibility theory as a global framework, including knowledge representation (as a possibility measure); in order to build a possibility fingerprint knowledge basis to be exploited in order to make a fingerprint verification decision. An extensive experimental evaluation shows that the proposed fingerprint verification approach is effective in terms of fingerprint image representation and possibility verification reasoning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s11042-013-1785-1
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fingerprint verification,Possibility theory,Curvelet transform,Fingerprint feature extraction
Computer vision,Knowledge representation and reasoning,Pattern recognition,Curvelet transform,Fingerprint Verification Competition,Computer science,Fingerprint,Curse of dimensionality,Possibility theory,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Discriminative model
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
74
9
1380-7501
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.41
20
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hanene Guesmi140.41
Hanêne Trichili2364.72
Mohamed Adel Alimi31947217.16
Basel Solaiman412735.05