How to get started with fingerprint recognition? I have started with Matlab and Digital Image Processing. I am trying to do Fingerprint recognition. I found many research papers regarding this but I am unsure where to start. Concisely, what is the most basic approach/algorithm for doing fingerprint recognition ?
This  may help you.
Also, everything related to fingerprinting in here.
I think is a good documentation to start with and view some source code. Nevertheless, you should learn some other algorithms before you start coding.