2.1. Combined Fingerprint Generation
In a combined minutiae template, the minutiae positions and orientations are extracted from two different
fingerprints separately and they shares similar topology with the original fingerprints. Therefore, the combined
minutiae template has a similar topology to an original minutiae template. By using FM model based fingerprint
reconstruction approach converts the combined minutiae template into a combined fingerprint image because of their similar topology. Given any two different fingerprints as input, first generate a combined minutiae template
using the combined minutiae template generation algorithm1
. Then, a combined fingerprint is reconstructed from the
combined minutiae template using the fingerprint reconstruction approach