Ridge-based fingerprint verification for enhanced security

Abstract

Fingerprint verification systems are very convenient and secure. However, existing systems can cause errors according to size and quality of fingerprint images that are read only with a use of minutiae. This paper enhanced security performance by decreasing False Match Rate(FMR) through a fingerprint verification system for which both minutiae and ridge information are used. As a result, we found that ZeroFMR decreased from 29% to 9.9%, which indicates enhanced security performance.