Towards more robust fingerprint verification.

Yeung Hoi Wo.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-88).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.10Chapter 1.1 --- Biometric Systems --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- Comparison of Biometrics --- p.2Chapter 1.3 --- Introduction of Fingerprint --- p.6Chapter 1.3.1 --- History of Fingerprint --- p.6Chapter 1.3.2 --- Fingerprint Analysis --- p.8Chapter 1.4 --- Fingerprint Verification --- p.13Chapter 1.4.1 --- Correlation Based Verification: --- p.13Chapter 1.4.2 --- Minutiae Based Verification: --- p.15Chapter 1.4.3 --- Ridge Feature-Based Verification: --- p.16Chapter 1.5 --- Evaluation of Verification Systems --- p.17Chapter 1.6 --- Difficulties of Fingerprint Verification --- p.22Chapter 1.7 --- Contributions --- p.25Chapter 1.8 --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.26Chapter 2. --- Two-Pass Direct Gray-Scale for Minutiae Detection --- p.28Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.28Chapter 2.2 --- Background Information --- p.29Chapter 2.3 --- Two-Pass Direct Gray Scale --- p.34Chapter 2.3.1 --- First Pass of TPD --- p.38Chapter 2.3.2 --- Second Pass of TPD --- p.41Chapter 2.4 --- Other Implementation Details --- p.44Chapter 2.4.1 --- Foreground Detection --- p.45Chapter 2.4.2 --- Region of Interest Detection --- p.48Chapter 2.4.3 --- Matching Methodology --- p.52Chapter 2.5 --- Experimental Results --- p.58Chapter 2.6 --- Summary --- p.62Chapter 3. --- Image Mosaicking and Template Synthesis --- p.63Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.63Chapter 3.2 --- Background Information --- p.65Chapter 3.3 --- Template Synthesis and Image Mosaicking --- p.66Chapter 3.3.1 --- Template Alignment --- p.66Chapter 3.3.2 --- Template Synthesis --- p.68Chapter 3.3.3 --- Image Mosaicking --- p.70Chapter 3.4 --- Experiments --- p.72Chapter 3.5 --- Summary --- p.75Chapter 4. --- Conclusion and Future Investigations --- p.77References --- p.8