“…The problem of fingerprint matching has been extensively studied and numerous algorithms have been proposed. These algorithms can be classified as correlation-based [3,4,5,6,7,9,8,10,11,12,13,14,15], minutiae-based [17,18,19,20] and frequency-based [21,22] approaches. Correlation-based matching is the most popular and widely used technique, being the basis of the fingerprint comparison.…”