Fingerprint analysis plays crucial role in crucial legal matters such as investigation of crime.
But a fingerprint image consists of enormous amount of data. Therefore we have to reduce
the amount of its data. To do this, we need some powerful image compression technique.
There are many image compression techniques available, but still there is need to develop
faster, and efficient and reliable techniques to compress fingerprint images. The main
difficulty in developing compression algorithms for fingerprint is the need for preserving the …

An automatic recognition of people based on fingerprints that the input fingerprint be
matched with large number of fingerprints, and these increasing amount fingerprints
collected by law enforcement agencies has created enormous problem in storage and
transmission. Therefore it is often necessary to compress the image while storing the
necessary data for subsequent reconstruction. There are many image compression
techniques available at present. Recently the wavelet transform has emerged as a cutting …