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A new approach for fingerprint verification, based on wavelets and pseudo Zernike moments (PZMs), is 
discussed. PZMs are robust to noisy images, invariant to rotation and have a good image reconstruction 
capability [4]. PZMs have been used for global analysis and so they are used to extract global features (the 
shape of the fingerprint image). Wavelets are good at local analysis and so they help to extract local 
features (minutiae) from a fingerprint. Therefore, this hybrid approach extracts most significant features 
from the fingerprint images and achieve better verification rate. Different types of wavelets are used for the 
study but the result shows that Symmlet orthonormal wavelet of order 8 gives best verification rate.