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ACSSC 2003, Date: 2003/11/09 - 2003/11/12, Location: CA, Pacific Grove

Publication date: 2003-01-01
Pages: 2058 - 2062
ISSN: 0-7803-8104-1
Publisher: IEEE

37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ACSSC 2003)

Author:

Yang, Shenglin
Sakiyama, Kazuo ; Verbauwhede, Ingrid ; Matthews, MB

Keywords:

cosic, Science & Technology, Technology, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, Electrical & Electronic, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Engineering

Abstract:

Creating a biometric verification system in a resource-constrained embedded environment is a challenging problem. This paper describes an efficient fingerprint verification module, which is part of an embedded device called ThumbPod. The whole fingerprint verification algorithm runs on a 50MHz fixed-point processor. As the result of our SW/HW optimizations, we achieve 55.6% and 60.0% execution time reduction for the minutiae extraction and the matching, respectively, compared to a traditional implementation reference. The complete process finishes in less than 5 seconds.