Fingerprint recognition performance with WSQ, CAWDR, and JPEG2000 compression

In this paper, fingerprint images compressed with WSQ, CAWDR and JPEG2000 are evaluated for fingerprint recognition performance. With high compression ratio between 40:1 to 160:1, fingerprint images which lost a lot of their details are used to find fingercodes, or core point. Euclidean Distance is the method used to find the matched fingerprint. We also proposed the subband-reduced CAWDR method which results in comparative recognition performance to the conventional CAWDR. The results of recognition performance of all coders are summarized in the paper.