Fingerprint recognition is one of the most popular methods used in people identification and with the greater degree of success. The fingerprint has unique characteristics called minutiae, which are points where a curve track finishes, intersects with other one or branches off. Identification systems using fingerprints biometric patterns are called AFIS (Automatic Fingerprint Identification System). In this work a novel method of minutiae extraction is considered as well as the image improvement using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) in an image that has been captured using a UareU 4000© fingerprint reader of Digital Persona, Inc.
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