After analyzing the automatic fingerprint recognition based on structural features, we improved it and put forward a step by step structural matching method. The recognition is grouped two step.

分析了基于结构匹配的指纹自动识别方法，并对其作出了改进，提出了一种分阶段的结构匹配识别方法，把识别分为两步进行。

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