RECOGNITION AND RESTORATION OF FINGERPRINTS
The relevance of development of personality identification biometric technologies is caused by increase in number of objects and information streams which need to be protected from illegal access, namely: criminalistics; access control systems; systems of identification of the personality; systems of electronic commerce; information security; accounting of working hours and registration of visitors; systems of vote; carrying out electronic payments; authentication on Web resources; different social projects where identification of people is required; projects of civil identification (intersection of frontiers, issue of visas on visit of the country), etc. Unlike paper identifiers (the passport, the driving license), the password or the personal identification number (PIN), biometric characteristics can't be forgotten or lost, it is difficult to forge them and it is almost impossible to change. The article examines the method of restoring papillary fingerprint patterns, which makes it possible to increase the efficiency of fingerprint recognition in biometric systems of human identification, by restoring the damaged areas on images of fingerprints. The effectiveness of the new approach is shown on examples of deformed fingerprints. The subject of the study are methods and algorithms for processing fingerprints. The object of the study is a set of test images. The results of the research are applicable for use in various areas related to biometric fingerprint authentication to ensure recognition accuracy and safety. In the course of solving the scientific problems, unique algorithms will be synthesized, on the basis of which the software for fingerprint recognition with the purpose of quick identification of a person.