A New Approach for the Fingerprint Classification Based On Gray-Level Co- Occurrence Matrix

In this paper, we propose an approach for the classification of fingerprint databases. It is based on the fact that a fingerprint image is composed of regular texture regions that can be successfully represented by co-occurrence matrices. So, we first extract the features based on certain characteristics of the cooccurrence matrix and then we use these features to train a neural network for classifying fingerprints into four common classes. The obtained results compared with the existing approaches demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed approach.

• Mehran Yazdi
• Kazem Gheysari

• Biometrics
• fingerprint classification
• gray level cooccurrence matrix
• regular texture representation.

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