Shilpa K

 

      A novel system for protecting fingerprint privacy by combining two different fingerprints into a new identity. In the enrollment, two fingerprints are captured from two different fingers. We extract the minutiae positions from one fingerprint, the orientation from the other fingerprint, and the reference points from both fingerprints. Based on this extracted information and our proposed coding strategies, a combined minutiae template is generated and stored in  a database. In the authentication, the system requires two query fingerprints from the same two fingers which are used in the enrollment. A two stage fingerprint matching process is proposed for matching the two query fingerprints against a combined minutiae template