Accurate minutiae extraction from ngerprint images is heavily dependent on the quality of the ngerprint images.

In order to improve the performance of the system, many researchers have been made efforts on the image enhancement algorithms. In this paper, we apply an adaptive preprocessing algorithm that classify the ngerprint images based on their quality and apply enhancement algorithms according to their type. The ngerprint image is rst classied into dry prints and normal prints and then enhance the image according to their characteristics. The system uses ngerprint classication using neural network to apply adaptive image enhancement. We propose a distance vector comparison algorithm,in which we compare the relative distance and angle between the minutiae of two prints. The rst step is to construct a distance matrix of the prints, which shows the relative distance between each minutiae in the ngerprint. Now, the cross matching algorithm is comprised of three distinct algorithms, the distance matrix creation algorithm, relative distance comparing algorithm, and angle validating algorithm. Experimental results shows that the proposed method improves the performance of the ngerprint identication system signicantly. EXISTING SYSTEM:
Bolle enhancement algorithm[1], which decomposes the input ngerprint image into a set of ltered images. From the ltered images, the orientation eld is estimated and a quality mask which distinguishes the recoverable and unrecoverable corrupted regions in the input image.Then enhance the recoverable regions only .This algorithm does work efciently for the dry ngerprint images. L.Hong ,A.K.Jain and Y.Wan proposed an algorithm[2], which modeled the ridge and valley patterns as a sine wave, and computed the amplitude and frequency to decide the quality of the ngerprint image. They evaluated the performance of their image enhancement algorithm using goodness index based on minutiae and verication performance. But they used quality check only for the performance evaluation of image enhancement algorithm. K .Ratha proposed method[3] for image quality estimation from wavelet scalar quantization (WSQ)images. This is only for WSQ compressed format and it is not the case for general ngerprint images. Eyung Lim Kar[4] developed local and global quality measures and estimated the quality and validity of ngerprint

images. All these ngerprint image enhancement algorithms apply same enhancement procedure for all the type of images. This paper propose an algorithm that use different enhancement processes for dry and neutral ngerprint images. The dry ngerprints might contain large number of false minutiae.

CONCLUSION: Fingerprint matching is the key to ngerprint identication systems and effects on the precision and efciency of the whole system directly. In this paper, we used an adaptive preprocessing algorithm that classify the ngerprint images based on their quality and apply enhancement algorithms. The ngerprint image is rst classied into dry prints and normal prints and enhance the image according to their characteristics. The system uses ngerprint classication using neural network to apply adaptive image enhancement. The proposed distance vector comparison algorithm,in which we compare the relative distance and angle between the minutiae of two prints. The rst step is to construct a distance matrix of the prints, which shows the relative distance between each minutiae in the ngerprint.