A comprehensive and real-time fingerprint verification system for embedded devices

Abstract

This paper describes an embedded multi-user login system based on fingerprint recognition. The system, built using the Sitsang development board and embedded Linux, implements all fingerprint acquisition, preprocessing, minutia extraction, match, identification, user registration, and template encryption on the board. By careful analysis of the accuracy requirement as well as the arithmetic precision to be used, we optimized the algorithms so that the whole system can work in real-time in the embedded environment based on Intel® PXA255 processor. The fingerprint verification, which is the core part of the system, is fully tested on a fingerprint database consists of 1149 fingerprint images. The result shows that we can achieve an accuracy of more than 95%. Field testing of 20 registered users has further proved the reliability of our system. The core part of our system, then embedded fingerprint authentication, can also be applied in many different embedded applications concerning security problems.