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Fingerprint Image Enhancement: Algorithm and Performance Evaluation

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Anil JainAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 20, Issue 8

Pages 777 - 789

https://doi.org/10.1109/34.709565

Published: 01 August 1998 Publication History

Abstract

A critical step in automatic fingerprint matching is to automatically and reliably extract minutiae from the input fingerprint images. However, the performance of a minutiae extraction algorithm relies heavily on the quality of the input fingerprint images. In order to ensure that the performance of an automatic fingerprint identification/verification system will be robust with respect to the quality of input fingerprint images, it is essential to incorporate a fingerprint enhancement algorithm in the minutiae extraction module. We present a fast fingerprint enhancement algorithm, which can adaptively improve the clarity of ridge and valley structures of input fingerprint images based on the estimated local ridge orientation and frequency. We have evaluated the performance of the image enhancement algorithm using the goodness index of the extracted minutiae and the accuracy of an online fingerprint verification system. Experimental results show that incorporating the enhancement algorithm improves both the goodness index and the verification accuracy.

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Fingerprint Image Enhancement: Algorithm and Performance Evaluation
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
2. Mathematics of computing
  1. Mathematical software

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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Volume 20, Issue 8

August 1998

127 pages

ISSN:0162-8828

Editor:
Rangachar Kasturi
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park

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