Enhancement of low quality fingerprints based on anisotropic filtering

  • Xinjian Chen
  • , Jie Tian*
  • , Yangyang Zhang
  • , Xin Yang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The enhancement of the low quality fingerprint is a difficult and challenge task. This paper proposes an efficient algorithm based on anisotropic filtering to enhance the low quality fingerprint. In our algorithm, an orientation filed estimation with feedback method was proposed to compute the accurate fingerprint orientation. The gradient-based approach was firstly used to compute the coarse orientation. Then the reliability of orientation was computed from the gradient image. If the reliability of the estimated orientation is less than pre-specified threshold, the orientation will be corrected by the mixed orientation model. And an anisotropic filtering was used to enhance the fingerprint, with the advantages of its efficient ridge enhancement and its robustness against noise in the fingerprint image. The proposed algorithm has been evaluated on the databases of Fingerprint verification competition (FVC2004). Experimental results confirm that the proposed algorithm is effective and robust for the enhancement of the low quality fingerprint.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Biometrics - International Conference, ICB 2006, Proceedings
Pages302-308
Number of pages7
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2006 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 5 Jan 20067 Jan 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3832 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2006
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period5/01/067/01/06

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