FCJ2020: Generating Fingerprint Templates with Image Processing and Verification

This paper concerns creating a fingerprint database named “FCJ2020 Fingerprint Dataset”, a part of the research project “Secure Template Generation Technique for Protecting Fingerprint Patterns from Security Attacks”. Generating fingerprint templates is an interesting issue in biometric authentication systems. The study aimed to create minutiae templates from the fingerprint images. The fingerprint image processing and feature extraction is an essential task in fingerprint recognition. This paper also presents the fingerprint image processing operations, feature extraction, and minutiae-based verification methods. The FCJ2020 database acquired 1200 fingerprints from fifty different persons. These fingerprint images were used to evaluate the performance of the proposed biometric authentication system.