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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">inf22307</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2011.335</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Ring Line Mapping and Rotation Inertial for Fingerprint Identification</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Su</surname><given-names>Ching-Liang</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:cls2@mail.dyu.edu.tw">cls2@mail.dyu.edu.tw</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Department of Industrial Engineering and Technology Management, Da Yeh University, 168 University Road, Dacun, Chang-Hua 51505, Taiwan</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2011</year></pub-date><volume>22</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>435</fpage><lpage>445</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>03</month><year>2009</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>01</day><month>10</month><year>2010</year></date></history><abstract><p>This study uses the r-theta transformation technique to map a fingerprint image to the straight-line signals. Subsequently, the “vector magnitude invariant transform” technique is applied to them to generate an invariant magnitude for person identification. This technique can solve the image rotation problem. Various vertical magnitude strips are generated to deal with the image-shifting problem. The algorithm developed in this study can precisely classify the fingerprint images.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>ring line mapping</kwd><kwd>rotation invariant</kwd><kwd>fingerprint identification</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>