Cloud-Based Service for Fingerprint Image Matching

Abstract

Fingerprint matching is one of the most important services that related to the issue of identifying individuals, as it can be used to verify the validity of contracts, documents or in other security fields such as criminal investigations. Fingerprints are also one of the most common and accurate forms, as they are easy to obtain, it also has a unique features and cannot be identical to any individuals. The proposed service exploits the advantages provided by cloud computing, such as ease of use, availability of the service anytime and anywhere, and no need to own expensive devices with high specifications, in addition to being low cost. In this service, all fingerprint image preprocessing operations and images enhancement, in addition to the matching, verification and decision-making process are done with the help of tools which provided by cloud computing environment. While the client's role in this service is limited to feeding the system with the fingerprint to be matched. The experimental results proved that this service has achieved high accuracy in matching fingerprint images, in addition to greatly facilitating the matching process for the user, and it can be used anytime and anywhere thanks to the cloud environment facilities adopted by this service.