• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.502-504
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• 2001

본 논문은 동작자가 표현하는 수화 동작 중, 지문자 영상을 2차원 영상처리에 의하여 이식하는 방법을 제안한다. 손에 개인에 따라 변량이 존재하고 같은 동작을 표현하더라도 항상 일정하지 않기 때문에, 지문자 인식을 위하여 손의 구조적인 정보를 이용한다. 추출된 손 영역을 입력으로 하여 손의 외곽 정보를 이용한 MAT(Medial Axis Transform)를 수행한다. 여기에서 나온 골격의 변화에 따라 각각 손가락에 해당하는 2번 쇽(Shock)과 손 바닥에 해당하는 4번 쇽의 관계에 의하여 지문자를 인식한다. 이러한 구조적인 정보를 이용함으로써 개인에 의해 나타나는 표현의 차이를 제거할 수 있고, MAT를 이용할 때 나타나는 외곽영역의 잡음에 의한 구조 변화에도 안정적으로 대처할 수 있다. 제안한 알고리즘을 이용하여 31개의 단순 지문자에 대한 270개의 입력영상을 실험한 결과 81.1%, 모양이 흡사한 지문자를 통합하여 26개의 지문자로 식별할 경우에는 91.1%의 인식율을 나타내었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.23-30
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• 2010

Compression techniques can be applied to large-scale fingerprint systems to store or transmit fingerprint data efficiently. In this paper, we investigate the effects of FBI WSQ fingerprint image compression on the performance of a fingerprint verification system using multiple linear regressions. We propose a maximum compression using fingerprint image quality score. Based on the experiments, we can confirm that the proposed approach can compress the fingerprint images up to 3 times more than the fixed compression ratio without significant degradation of the verification accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.337-340
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• 2007

일반적인 히스토그램 기법은 용선과 골로 이뤄진 지문 영상을 개선하는 효과가 미미하다. 히스토그램 스트레칭 기법은 명암 분포를 확장하여 전체 영상의 명암을 확장시키며, 히스토그램 스트레칭은 국소적인 명암 개선 효과에 탁월하므로 지문 영상 개선에 적합하지 않다. 따라서, 이 논문에서는 지문 영상을 개선하기 위해 평균과 표준 편차를 이용한 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.93-100
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• 2004

This paper presents a method to integrate the multiple impressions of a finger for improving fingerprint verification performance. Small-sized sensor has advantage that it can be used in many application fields. However, sufficiently large impression of fingerprint is not available due to the small sensing area, and this degrades the verification performance of the system. The proposed method overcomes this problem by combining the information of fingerprints for enrollment. To combine the fingerprints, the alignment process is important first of all. In the proposed algorithm multiple impressions of a finger are coarsely aligned using the corresponding minutiae pairs and then are finely aligned using the Distance Map. We construct an integrated template for enrollment in aligned coordinate system Since this integrated template represents the enlarged finger region, the problem that is occurred by using small sensor can be overcome. Experimental results show that the use of the integrated template of multiple impressions improves the performance of the fingerprint verification system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.11C
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• pp.1510-1517
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• 2004

A new fingerprint image enhancement algorithm using multiresolution information and Gabor filter is proposed in this paper. The proposed algorithm performs selection of the region in image according to inclusion of singular points and then performs enhancement using Gabor filtering of the region adjusted in its size. Gabor filter using representative direction in the same block is used in the region that the direction of ridge is not changed much, while Gabor filter using pixel based direction is used in the region that the direction of ridge is changed much. This method can reduce processing time for enhancement using Gabor filter and preserve the merit of Gabor filter.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.1740-1747
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• 2004

In this paper, we proposed an effective method for detecting fingerprint ridge direction based on the run-length and chain codes. First, a fingerprint image is normalized, and it is thresholded to obtain binary image with foreground and background regions. The foreground regions is composed of fingerprint ridges, and the ridges is encoded with the run-length and chain codes. To detect directional information, the boundary of ridge codes is traced, and curvature is calculated at ecah point of boundary. And the detected direction value is smoothed with appropriate window locally. The proposed method is applied to NIST and FVC2002 fingerprint database to evaluate performance. By the experimental results, the proposed method can be used to obtain ridge direction value in fingerprint image.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.53-60
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• 2008

Fingerprint verification method based on minutiae has been widely used for its speed and size stemming from utilizing only a few data, but it is vulnerable to some errors caused by the false minutiae extractions. A number of suggestions have been made to correct these problems. However, because it is very difficult to avoid all the external factors, such as noises that occur when fingerprints are collected, and all the internal factors that occur during the process of them, there is a limit in minimizing errors by improving the whole process. On the other hand, a fingerprint verification method based on images yields fewer errors because it makes direct comparison between images not using minutiae. Image-based fingerprint verification method has its limitations in aligning images with accuracy. Therefore, this paper proposes a new methodology to improve the performance utilizing both image-based and minutiae-based verification methods effectively. As the result of experimenting with both images and minutiae, the false accept rate and the false reject rate have been improved from 2.7% to 0.8% and from 6.5% to 5.5%, respectively.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.1337-1347
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• 2010

Fingerprint recognition is a biometric technology to identify individual by using fingerprint features such ridges and valleys. Most fingerprint systems perform the recognition based on minutiae points after acquiring a fingerprint image from contact type sensor. They have an advantage of acquiring a clear image of uniform size by touching finger on the sensor. However, they have the problems of the image quality can be reduced in case of severely dry or wet finger due to the variations of touching pressure and latent fingerprint on the sensor. To solve these problems, the contactless capturing devices for a fingerprint image was introduced in previous works. However, the accuracy of detecting minutiae points and recognition performance are reduced due to the degradation of image quality by the illumination variation. So, this paper proposes a new LDP-based fingerprint recognition method. It can effectively extract fingerprint patterns of iterative ridges and valleys. After producing histograms of the binary codes which are extracted by the LDP method, chi square distance between the enrolled and input feature histograms is calculated. The calculated chi square distance is used as the score of fingerprint recognition. As the experimental results, the EER of the proposed approach is reduced by 0.521% in comparison with that of the previous LBP-based fingerprint recognition approach.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.57-62
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• 2003

Among the procedure of automatic fingerprint recognition, binary code is important for the optimum thinning and singular point extraction while reserving the fingerprint image data. Binarization is to convert gray scale images into 0s and 255s values. For this conversion, you should set up the proper threshold value not to lose fingerprint image data. In this paper, we suggest the method to extract the standard threshold in real-time from fingerprint images entered by applying artificial intelligent methods in the binary code procedure. We show improved features while comparing the experiment results with the existing methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.1657-1660
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• 2000

이 논문에서는 지문 인식을 위한 전처리 과정 중 개선된 이진 지문 영상을 얻기 위한 방법을 제안하였다. 흐릿하거나 블러링 된 256 그레이 레벨 원 지문 영상에 대하여 이진화 수행 시 명확한 융선과 골의 구조를 얻기 위해 고주파 강화 필터링을 적용하였다. 필터링 된 영상에 대하여 일정 블록으로 분할 한 후 각 블록에서 계산된 평균값을 임계값으로 하여 이진화를 수행하였고, 필터링을 적용하지 않았을 때 보다 융선과 골의 구조가 분명하고 융선 흐름이 유연한 이진 지문 영상을 획득할 수 있었다.