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Finger Print Recognition Process and Parameters

        are abstractions of instanc- recognition to recognition  state, in which case we

        es of objects in a popu-             of the objects. Such pro-            say the machine accepts
        lation of non-identical              cessing detects subtle dif-          the sentences; or it may
        objects. The associations            ferences in the modulation  be in any other state, in

        between patterns and their  of the signals to perform                     which case we say that
        causes are the bricks from  recognition. A pattern will  the machine rejects the

        which the wall of scien-             be taken to be primitive             sentence. If the machine
        tific knowledge is built.            here in that we agree on             accepts a sentence, then it
                                             its meaning without be-              classifies it as belonging

        Recognition Versus                   ing required to define it.           to the class that the ma-
        Classification                       When it is determined that  chine recognizes.

                                             an object from a popula-
        Humans recognize the                 tion P belongs to a known  Fundamentals
        familiar faces in a crowd,           subpopulation S, we say

        characters and words on              that pattern recognition is  Information processing
        the printed page, the dif-           done. The recognition of             has always been under

        ferent types of voices,              an individual object as a            study through the his-
        favorite melodies, the               unique singleton class is            tory of science. Recently
        scent of perfumes and                called identification. Clas- pictorial information

        fruits, pattern of weave in  sification is the process of  processing has become
        cloth, the shape of leaves,  grouping objects together                    increasingly important.

        contextual meaning in                into classes according to            The availability of digital
        word phrases, and so                 their perceived likeness or  computers and massive
        forth. Other mammals are  similarities. The subject                       amount of pictorial data

        also excellent recogniz-             area of pattern recognition  in all fields has made pic-
        ers. The senses preprocess  includes both classifica-                     ture processing one of the

        signals such as sound or             tion and recognition and             major topics of current
        light waves that have been  belongs to the broader                        research. Formal lan-
        modulated-that is, trans-            field of machine intelli-            guage theory, which has

        formed in some fashion by  gence-that is, the study                       an inherently hierarchical
        interaction with an object           of how to make machines  structure, seems to be suit-

        that impressed informa-              learn and reason to make             able for picture analysis.
        tion on them. The prepro-            decision, as do humans.
        cessed-modulated signals             After having read in an              Biometrics and Basics of

        are then mapped into a               entire sentence, the ma-             Fingerprint
        decision that equates to             chine may be in a final


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