I want to use Fingerprint matching using multi-dimensional ANNby Rajesh Kumar and B.R. Deva Vikram [content link] for fingerprint identification. But I have a serious problem understanding what is a Multidimensional Artificial Neural Network.I searched for keywords MDANN and Multidimensional ANN but I can't find anything. I also can't be sure what Kumar meant about a MDANN in his article. So far, the closest thing I can relate with Kumar's MDANN is Convolution Nets but I don't believe this is what he meant. Can anybody help me about understanding this type of ANN?
Multi-dimensional Neural Network for fingerprint matching
artificial intelligence;neural networks
Based on my skim of the paper, I suspect that this is just a standard neural network (in which the entire image is fed into the neural network as an input, one input line per pixel in the image), and they have invented a fancy-sounding name for a standard use of neural networks.  You could of course contact the authors to ask them this question, but that's what it looks like to me.To replicate their work, I suggest you read Section 5.1 very carefully and use the descriptions there to replicate their work.