ASIC implementation of image enhancement technique for Fingerprint recognition process

The performance of Fingerprint recognition system depends on minutiae which are extracted from raw fingerprint image. Often the raw fingerprint image captured from a scanner may not be of good quality, which leads to inaccurate extraction of minutiae. Hence it is essential to preprocess the fingerprint image before extracting the reliable minutiae for matching of two fingerprint images. Image enhancement technique followed by minutiae extraction completes the fingerprint recognition process. Fingerprint recognition process with a matcher constitutes Fingerprint recognition system ASIC implementation of image enhancement technique for fingerprint recognition process using Cadence tool is proposed. Further, the result obtained from hardware design is compared with that of software using MatLab tool.