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Application of Wavelet Footprints for Fingerprint Compression
 
R.Sudhakar, N.Vignesh, Dr.S.Jayaraman
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, PSG College of Technology
Peelamedu,Coimbatore-641 004,Tamilnadu,India
 
Abstract:
Large volumes of fingerprints are collected and stored every day in a wide range of applications, including forensics, access control etc.,It is evident from the database of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) which contains more than 70 million finger prints. Wavelet based Algorithms for image Compression is most successful in recent years. A new representation of these 2D (Image) signals called as wavelet footprints are the finite scale space vectors containing all the wavelet coefficients generated by particular polynomial discontinuities. Together with the scaling coefficients (approximation), footprints can represent any piecewise polynomial signals. Footprints are formed from the cone of influence of the given signal’s discontinuity. In this paper the focus is much on the novel compression scheme by combining wavelet Footprints with Non-linear Approximation (NLA). The results for the Compression Algorithm based on wavelet footprints shows that there is a gradual improvement in the Compression Ratio (CR) and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio(PSNR) over the Set partitioning in Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT) Algorithm.
 
Keywords: Image Compression, scaling coefficients Piecewise polynomial signal, Footprints, Cone of influence, NLA.
 

The author Sudhakar.R was born in Kumbakonam in Thanjavur District, Tamilnadu, India. He  has obtained B.E.(Electronics and Communication Engg.)from Madras university in the year 1990 and M.E.(Communication Systems) from Thiagarajar College of Engg., Madurai in the year 2001.He is going to Complete his Ph.D shortly in the area of Image Compression using Beyond wavelets. His research Areas are: Image compression using beyond Wavelets i.e., wavelet Footprints, Contourlet Transform He has published 6 papers in National conferences, 1 paper presented in International conference(Adcom-2003),3 more papers to be presented in International conferences(1 paper in Malaysia), and 4 papers are under serious review in International journal. He is working as senior Lecturer in Dept. of ECE,PSG College of Technology for the past 3 years. He has nearly 12 years of teaching experience. His areas of interest include DSP, Digital Image Processing, Signals & Systems, Adaptive Signal Processing and Statistical Signal Processing.

 
 

Mr.N.Vignesh received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in ECE from Tamilnadu College of Engineering He has completed M.E (Communication Systems) Course from PSG College of Technology(2005 batch). His areas of interest include Digital Image Processing, Wireless Digital Communication, Wavelet transforms and Statistical Signal Processing.

Jayaraman.S received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in ECE from PSG College of Technology. He received his post graduate and a doctorate degree from the same institute .He has 28 years of teaching experience. He is currently the Head of ECE Department in PSG College of Technology. He has published more than 25 papers in Journals and Conferences.His areas of interest include DSP, Statistical Signal Processing, Multirate Signal Processing and Adaptive Signal Processing,, Non linear signal processing, Digital Image processing, Multidimensional signal processing.

BibTex:

@ARTICLE{P1150518003,

AUTHOR = {R. Sudhakar and N. Vignesh and S. Jayaraman},

TITLE = {Application of Wavelet Footprints for Fingerprint Compression},

JOURNAL = {ICGST International Journal on Graphics, Vision and Image Processing, GVIP},

YEAR = {2005},

MONTH = {June},

VOLUME = {5},

ISSUE = {6},

PAGES = {39--45}

}

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