• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2007

In fingerprints, singular regions including core or delta points have different directional characteristics from non-singular regions. Generally, the ridges of singular regions change more abruptly than those of nonsingular areas, thus in order to effectively enhance fingerprint images regardless of region, local ridge curvature information needs to be used. In this paper, we present an improved Directional Filter Bank (DFB)-based fingerprint image enhancement method that effectively takes advantage of such ridge curvature information. The proposed method first decomposes a fingerprint image into 8 directional subbands using the DFB and then classifies the image into background, low curvature, and high curvature regions using the directional energy estimates calculated from the subbands. Thereafter, the weight values for directional subband processing are determined using classification information and directional energy estimates. Finally, the enhanced image is obtained by synthesizing the processed subbands. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is effective in enhancing both singular and non-singular regions.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.341-348
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• 2009

We report the development of full-field swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) in the wavelength range of 815-870 nm using a unique combination of super-luminescent diode (SLD) as broad-band light source and acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) as a frequency-scanning device. Some new applications of full-field SS-OCT in forensic sciences and engineering materials have been demonstrated. Results of simultaneous topography and tomography of latent fingerprints, silicon microelectronic circuits and composite materials are presented. The main advantages of the present system are completely non-mechanical scanning, wide-field, compact and low-cost.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.10-14
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• 1997

The database of metabolic fingerprints generated using the GIolog system of lactic acid bacteria isolated from kimchi, described by Lee et al. (8), was used for the identification of 75 Leuconostoc isolates. The test strains were isoalted using a selective isolation medium specific for the genus Leuconostoc and examined for their ability to oxidize carbon sources using the Biolog system. The results show that the 75 test strains were identified to the known Leuconostoce clusters. It is suggested that the Biolog system can be applied for rapid identification of lactic acid bacteria isolated from kimchi.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제17권6호통권78호
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• pp.20-28
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• 2002

지문 정보 등의 생체 정보를 이용하는 생체 기술은 컴퓨터 시스템의 로그인, 출입 ID, 전자상거래 보안 등의 여러 서비스에서 사용자의 안전한 인증을 위해 널리 사용되고 있다. 근래에 이르러, 생체 기술은 비밀 번호와 같은 기존의 개인 인증 방법에 비해 안전하면서도 자동화를 가져올 수 있다는 장점으로 인해 보안 토큰, 스마트 카드와 같은 소형의 임베디드 시스템에 탑재되고 이용되는 추세이다. 본 논문에서는 보안 토큰을 이용한 생체 인식 기술의 시장 동향을 살펴보고 임베디드 시스템의 형태인 보안 토큰 시스템을 개발하고 시험한 결과를 기술하였다. 보안 토큰과 호스트와의 통신은 USB를 이용하여 시험 및 검증하였으며 보안 토큰 상에서의 지문 정합 프로그램의 성능 측정 및 개선에 대해 기술하였다. 나아가, 보안 토큰에서 매치 온 카드(match-on-card)로의 전이를 위해 필요한 내용을 언급하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.801-805
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• 2012

This paper proposes dynamic thresholding scheme for fingerprint identification. As a user authentication method by fingerprint recognition technology, verification method based on 1:1 matching was mainly used in the past, but identification method based on 1:N matching is generally used recently. The control of the value of FAR is very important in the application areas such as access control and time attendance systems. This paper proposes dynamic thresholding scheme which could properly control the value of FAR according to the field of applications and size of the fingerprints database.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.427-428
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• 2006

This paper presents an image fingerprinting scheme for the print-to-capture model performed by a photo printer and digital camera. When capturing an image by a digital camera, various kinds of distortions such as noise, geometrical distortions, and lens distortions are applied. slightly and simultaneously. In this paper, we consider several steps to extract fingerprints from the distorted image in print-and capture scenario. To embed ID into an image as a fingerprint, multi-bits embedding is applied. We embed 64 bits information as a fingerprint into spatial domain of color images. In order to restore a captured image from distortions a noise reduction filter is performed and a rectilinear tiling pattern is used as a template. To make the template, a multi-bits fingerprint is embedded repeatedly like a tiling pattern. We show that the extracting is successful from the image captured by a digital camera through the experiment.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.91-94
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• 2000

Fingerprints of 114 Australian Aboriginal males and 90 females have been analyzed. Whorls are more frequent in males (56.7%) than in females (51.2%) and loops are less frequent in males (42.6%) than in females (47.0%). The index of pattern intensity displays a higher value in males (15.60) than in females (14.94). The bimanual differences both in males and females ave not statistically significant for the occurrence of patterns on the digits of the right and left hands. Also the difference between both sexes for the occurrence of patterns is not statistically significant. Incidences of actual symmetry on homologous digits represented 74.0% in males and 77.3% in females. The mean total ridge counts showed 156.65 $\pm$43.32 (M$\pmSD) in males and 148.6943.64 (M$\pmSD) in females, respectively. Conclusively, this study represents that the Australian Aborigines conform closely to the Polynesians in finger dermatoglyphics.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.295-296
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• 2007

Fake fingersubmission to the sensor is a major problem in fingerprint recognition systems. In this paper, we introduce a novel liveness detection method using multi-static features. For convenience and usefulness of field application, static features are only considered to detect 'live' and 'fake' fingerprint images. Individual pore spacing, noise of image and first order statistics of image are analyzed as our static features to reflect the Physiological and statistical characteristics of live and fake fingerprint.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.277-280
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• 1998

Fingerprints of 104 New Zealand Maori males and 98 females have been analyzed. Whorls are more abundant in females (55.0%) than in males(47.3%). The index of pattern intensity reveals a higher va1ue in females(15.39) than in males (14.52). The bimanual differences both in males and females are not statistically significant for the occurrence of pattern on the digits of the right and left hands. The difference between the sexes in occurrence of patterns is not statistically significant. Incidences of actual symmetry on the homologous digits represented a mean of 78.8% in all subjects. The mean total ridge counts showed 161.7 in females and 159.6 in males, respectively. Thus, the Maori show greater affinities with the Mongoloids in quantitative dermatoglyphics.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2006년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회 논문집 Vol.33 No.1 (B)
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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.