A Fingerprint Minutiae Recognition System Based on Genetic Algorithms

Jihad Jaam¹, Mohamed Rebaiaia², and Ahmad Hasnah¹

¹Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Qatar, Qatar

 ²Computer Science Department, University of Batna, Algeria  

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a fingerprint verification system using two different modules: the automatic classification of fingerprints which is based on the minutiae-matching algorithms and the verification-search technique which is based on genetic algorithms. Our experiments on a large set of fingerprint images show that our approach is highly promising. Its performance shows a great flexibility in recognizing a person very quickly with an error-prone of at most 1%.

 Keywords: Image processing, pattern recognition, fingerprint’s minutiae detection, genetic algorithms.