Effective fingerprint recognition approach based on double fingerprint thumb

Many techniques are implemented to perform fingerprint recognition approach, and each technique based on specific criteria. The aim of this work is to find an efficient fingerprint recognition technique. This paper tries to offer a simple high performance approach to perform fingerprint recognition. This approach based on two main stages; the first one is the real data collection of human fingerprint samples and the second stage is concentrated on design and implementation of high performance fingerprint recognition approach. The implemented approach concentrated on the feature extraction part in which many levels of two dimensional discrete wavelet transform (2D-DWT) are used to generate high performance feature. This approach is implemented via mixing the features of both right hand thumb and left hand thumb. The results indicate that a good accuracy of recognition is obtained by this approach.