how to find orientation of ridges and bifurcation point in fingerprint image??

hii...my prject is fingerprint minutiae matching but problem is how to find orientation of ridges and bifurcation point in fingerprint image...so anyone have the code about this topic please help me....

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

You'll probably have to write it yourself. Go here for published algorithms: http://iris.usc.edu/Vision-Notes/bibliography/contentspeople.html#Face%20Recognition,%20Detection,%20Tracking,%20Gesture%20Recognition,%20Fingerprints,%20Biometrics