Demonstrator of a fingerprint recognition algorithm into a low-power microcontroller

A demonstrator has been developed to illustrate the performance of a lightweight fingerprint recognition algorithm based on the feature QFingerMap16, which is extracted from a window of the directional image centered at the convex core of the fingerprint. The algorithm has been implemented into a low-power ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller included in a Texas Instruments LaunchPad CC2650 evaluation kit. It has been also implemented in a Raspberry Pi 2 so as to show the results obtained at the successive steps of the recognition process with the aid of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The algorithm offers a good tradeoff between power consumption and recognition accuracy, being suitable for authentication on wearables.