• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.1
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• pp.29-34
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• 2002

Fingerprint recognition technology was studied by classification and matching. In general, there are five different classifications left loop, right loop, whore, arch, and tented-arch. These classifications are used to determine which class an individual's fingerprint belong to, thereby identifying the individual's fingerprint pattern. The result of this classification, which is sent to the large fingerprint database as an index, helps reduce the matching time and enhance the accuracy of fingerprint matching. The existing fingerprint classification method relies on the number and location of cores and delta points called singular points. The drawback of this method is the lack of accuracy stemming from the classification difficulty involving unclear and/or partially-erased fingerprints. The current paper presents an efficient classification method to rectify the problem associated with identifying Singular points from unclear fingerprints. This method, which is based on Gabor filter's unique characteristics for magnifying directional patterns and frequency range selections, improves fingerprint classification accuracy significantly. In this paper, this method is described and its test result is presented for verification.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06b
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• pp.262-264
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• 2006

지문분류는 지문을 전역특징에 따라 미리 정의된 클래스로 분류하는 기술로, 대규모 지문식별시스템의 매칭시간을 감소시키는데 유용하다. 지문은 개인마다 고유하기 때문에 각 지문마다 전역특징이 다양하게 분포하여 기존의 특징추출방법으로는 분류에 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이를 해결하기 위하여 적응적 특징추출방법을 제안하였다. 이는 융선 방향의 변화량을 계산하여 지문의 전역특징을 포함하는 특징영역을 탐색한 뒤, 특징영역의 블록 방향성 정보로부터 특징벡터를 추출한다. NIST4 지문 데이터에 대한 5클래스 분류실험 결과 제안하는 특징추출방법이 90.25%의 분류성능을 보여 기존 방법보다 효과적임을 확인하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.11
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• pp.1136-1146
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• 2005

Fingerprint classification is useful in an automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) to reduce the matching time by categorizing fingerprints. Based on Henry system that classifies fingerprints into S classes, various techniques such as neural networks and support vector machines (SVMs) have been widely used to classify fingerprints. Especially, SVMs of high classification performance have been actively investigated. Since the SVM is binary classifier, we propose a novel classifier-combination model, multiple decision templates (MuDTs), to classily fingerprints. The method extracts several clusters of different characteristics from samples of a class and constructs a suitable combination model to overcome the restriction of the single model, which may be subject to the ambiguous images. With the experimental results of the proposed on the FingerCodes extracted from NIST Database4 for the five-class and four-class problems, we have achieved a classification accuracy of $90.4\%\;and\;94.9\%\;with\;1.8\%$ rejection, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.143-151
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• 2010

Fingerprint classification is a step to increase the efficiency of an 1:N fingerprint recognition system and plays a role to reduce the matching time of fingerprint and to increase accuracy of recognition. It is difficult to classify fingerprints, because the ridge pattern of each fingerprint class has an overlapping characteristic with more than one class, fingerprint images may include a lot of noise and an input condition is an exceptional case. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to design a stochastic model and to accomplish fingerprint classification using a directional characteristic of fingerprints for an effective classification of various qualities. We compute the directional value by searching a fingerprint ridge pixel by pixel and extract a directional characteristic by merging a computed directional value by fixed pixels unit. The modified Markov model of each fingerprint class is generated using Markov model which is a stochastic information extraction and a recognition method by extracted directional characteristic. The weight list of classification model of each class is decided by analyzing the state transition matrixes of the generated Markov model of each class and the optimized value which improves the performance of fingerprint classification using GA (Genetic Algorithm) is estimated. The performance of the optimized classification model by GA is superior to the model before the optimization by the experiment result of applying the fingerprint database of various qualities to the optimized model by GA. And the proposed method effectively achieved fingerprint classification to exceptional input conditions because this approach is independent of the existence and nonexistence of singular points by the result of analyzing the fingerprint database which is used to the experiments.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.41-49
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• 2008

Fingerprint classification is useful to reduce the matching time of a huge fingerprint identification system by categorizing fingerprints into predefined classes according to their global features. Although global features are distributed diversly because of the uniqueness of a fingerprint, previous fingerprint classification methods extract global features non-adaptively from the fixed region for every fingerprint. We propose an novel method that extracts features adaptively for each fingerprint in order to classify various fingerprints effectively. It extracts ridge directional values as feature vectors from the region after searching the feature region by calculating variations of ridge directions, and classifies them using support vector machines. Experimental results with NIST4 database show that we have achieved a classification accuracy of 90.3% for the five-class problem and 93.7% for the four-class problem, and proved the validity of the proposed adaptive method by comparison with non-adaptively extracted feature vectors.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.1259-1267
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• 2016

With the growing use of fingerprint authentication systems in recent years, the fake fingerprint detection is becoming more and more important. This paper mainly proposes a method for fake fingerprint detection based on CNN, it will visualize the distinctive part of detected fingerprint which provides a deeper insight in CNN model. After the preprocessing part using fingerprint segmentation, the pretrained CNN model is used for detecting the liveness detection. Not only a liveness detection but also feature analysis about the live fingerprint and fake fingerprint are provided after classifying which materials are used for making the fake fingerprint. Our system is evaluated on three databases in LivDet2013, which compromise almost 6500 live fingerprint images and 6000 fake fingerprint images in total. The proposed method achieves 3.1% ACE value about the liveness detection and achieves 79.58% accuracy on LiveDet2013.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.545-551
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• 2003

Henry System which is a traditional fingerprint classification model is difficult to apply to a modem Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). To tackle this problem, this study is to apply algorithm for an An Ensemble Fingerprint Classroom System using changes of gradient of ridge in order to improve precise joining speed of a large volume of database. The existing classification system, Henry System, is useful in a captured fingerprint image of core point and delta point using paper and ink. However, the Henry System is unapplicable in modem Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) because of problems such as size of input sensor and way of input. This study is to suggest an Ensemble Fingerprint Classroom System which can classify 5 basic patterns of Henry System in uncaptured delta image using changes of gradient of ridge. The proposed fingerprint classification technique will make an improvement of precise joining speed by reducing data volume.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.757-759
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• 2005

Henry의 지문분류법이 창안된 후, 지문분류에 대한 여러 가지 접근 방법이 연구되고 있다. 특이점에 의한 분류는 가장 많이 연구되고 있는 방법이지만, 지문영상의 품질에 민감하기 때문에 정확한 분류가 쉽지 않다. 의사 융선은 특이점과 더불어 지문을 분류하기 위한 특징으로, 특이점의 불완전함을 보완하는데 이용한다. 본 논문에서는 나이브 베이즈 분류기를 이용하여 특이점과 의사 융선 정보의 확률적인 분류 방법을 제안한다. NIST DB 4에 대해 제안하는 방법을 실험한 결과 5클래스 분류에 대해 $85.4\%$의 분류율을 획득하였으며, 제안하는 방법이 신경망, 최근접 이웃에 의한 분류에 비해 더 빠르다는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.355-358
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• 2003

대용량 데이터베이스를 기반으로 하는 지문인식 시스템에 있어서 전체적인 처리효율 증가를 위한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다 본 논문에서는 지문의 형상을 일정한 패턴을 기준으로 분류를 수행함에 있어서 영상의 Noise제거를 위해 하나의 영상에 크기가 서로 다른 2개의 블록으로 영상을 분할하여 공통적으로 추출해 내는 특이점의 Position과 개수에 따라 지문을 분류하여 대용량 지문인식 시스템의 처리 효율을 증가시키는데 있다 .

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.751-753
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• 2005

지문을 5가지 클래스로 나누는 헨리시스템을 기반으로 신경망이나 SVM(Support Vector Machines) 등과 같은 다양한 패턴분류 기법들이 지문분류에 많이 사용되고 있다. 특히 최근에는 높은 분류 성능을 보이는 SVM 분류기의 결합을 이용한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 지문은 클래스 구분이 모호한 영상이 많아서 단일결합모델로는 분류에 한계가 있다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 새로운 분류기 결합모델인 다중결정템플릿(Multiple Decision Templates, MuDTs)을 제안한다. 이 방법은 하나의 지문클래스로부터 서로 다른 특성을 갖는 클러스터들을 추출하여 각 클러스터에 적합한 결합모델을 생성한다. NIST-database4 데이터로부터 추출한 핑거코드에 대해 실험한 결과. 5클래스와 4클래스 분류문제에 대하여 각각 $90.4\%$와 $94.9\%$의 분류성능(거부율 $1.8\%$)을 획득하였다.