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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2008
Rudolf Maarten Bolle, Bedford Hills, NY (US);
Sharat Suresh Chikkerur, Cambridge, MA (US);
Sharathchandra Umapathirao Pankanti, Manhasset, NY (US);
Nalini Kanta Ratha, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Rudolf Maarten Bolle, Bedford Hills, NY (US);
Sharat Suresh Chikkerur, Cambridge, MA (US);
Sharathchandra UmapathiRao Pankanti, Manhasset, NY (US);
Nalini Kanta Ratha, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for processing fingerprints includes representing each minutiae in a fingerprint by determining quantized Gabor coefficients to represent texture content of the minutiae. A distance is computed between represented minutiae and stored minutiae. The minutiae matches are ranked based on the distance to identify the fingerprint.