Title
Accelerating fingerprint identification using FPGA for large-scale applications
Abstract
Fingerprint-based human authentication has shown great potential for civil, forensic and corporate security applications in recent years. For large-scale databases, the complexity of the identification system increases and implementing these systems on general-purpose sequential computing devices becomes challenging. Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) has demonstrated to be an efficient tool for the acceleration of computationally challenging applications by utilizing parallelism in the computations. In this study, an FPGA-based hardware accelerator is exploited to propose a fast and robust fingerprint identification solution that is based on a generalized minutiae neighbor based encoding and matching algorithm. The proposed FPGA implementation employs the Distributed RAM resources efficiently by using them as look-up tables for matching the encoded minutiae features. The proposed FPGA-based fingerprint matching system has the potential to match 2.75 million fingerprints per second while maintaining a low error rate. The proposed system can be deemed as an effective solution for Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) for large-scale applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.jpdc.2020.03.007
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Biometrics,Fingerprint identification,FPGA,Parallel processing
Journal
141
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0743-7315
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohsin Shafiq100.34
Imtiaz A. Taj2307.29
Mubeen Ghafoor3175.80
Syed Ali Tariq401.69
Assad Abbas5839.72
albert y zomaya642743.75