Hello,
I have a storage of several thousands of fingerprint images. I am
looking for an efficient way of comparing and matching a new image to
the existing ones.
Can anyone help me?

Tamar.

Tamar wrote:
the best I can suggest is to ask in a graphics processing group.


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What language? Many languages have methods for calculating histogram deltas
for arbitrary images that give a percentage of likelyhood for matches. You
might check with the appropriate newsgroup for your language or search
google.

Greg

Tamar wrote:

the existing ones. <<

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