ABSTRACT:
A fingerprint recognizing system is built with two
principal components: the fingerprint admin istrator
and the fingerprint recognizer. Fingerprints are
identified by their special features such as ridge
endings, ridge bifurcation, short ridges, and ridge
enclosures, which are collectively called the
minutiae. It explains the finger print characteri stics
that by are used to identify individuals and the
process of minutiae extraction. The fingerprint
administrator uses the method of gray scale ridge
tracing backed up by a validating procedure to
extract the minutiae of fingerprints. The fingerprint
recognizer employs the technique of fuzzy
evolutionary programming to match the minutiae
of an input fingerprint with those from a database.