Abstract : (seminar) A fingerprint recognizing system is built with two principal components: the fingerprint administrator and the fingerprint recognizer.Fingerprints are identified by their special features such as ridge endings, ridge bifurcation, short ridges, and ridge enclosures,
which are collectively called the minutiae. It explains the finger print characteristics that
are used to identify individuals and the process of minutiae extraction. The fingerprint administrator uses the method of gray scale ridge tracing backed up by a validating procedure to extract the minutiae of fingerprints. The fingerprint recognizer employs the technique of fuzzy
evolutionary programming to match the minutiae of an input fingerprint with those from a database.