The Image Process Technology in Fingerprint Identification

Fingerprint identification technology is one of the biometric identification technologies that match and recognize the collected fingerprint image to determine the identity of the person. Fingerprint identification technology compared to other biometric identifications is more unique, practical and workable. Therefore, the fingerprint identification as the most popular, most convenient and most reliable authentication method, it has been widely used in many aspects of social life. This paper introduced the whole structure of the fingerprint identification system and the function of every part in fingerprint identification system, mainly introduced the part of fingerprint image pre-processing and implemented one of the algorithms for fingerprint image preprocessing with MATLAB. The result of the experiment shows that the algorithm for fingerprint image preprocessing that used in the paper meets the fingerprint image preprocessing requirements and it provides a basis for fingerprint characteristics extracting and fingerprint characteristics matching.