Fingerprint indexing is an efficient technique that greatly improves the performance of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems. We propose a continuous fingerprint indexing method based on location, direction estimation and correlation of fingerprint singular points. Location and direction estimation are achieved simultaneously by applying a T-shape model to directional field of fingerprint images. The T-shape model analyzes homocentric sectors around the candidate singular points to find lateral-axes and further main-axes. Then a distortion-tolerant filter of Minimum Average Correlation Energy is utilized to obtain a correlation-based similarity measure which gives the evidence of searching priority. The experiment is performed by 400-fingerprint retrieval from 10,000 templates and the mean search space is only 3.46% of the whole dataset.
Abstract. We present a top-down fingerprint image enhancement method which is based on Fourier analysis. Our method takes advantage of two filtering methods in Fourier domain proposed previously and employs a top-down iteration filtering technique, which enables the enhancement procedure not to rely severely on an accurate estimation of ridge frequency and orientation and also enables us to make use of more than the local information in local fingerprint filtering. Consequently, our method is robust to handle low quality fingerprint images. Results of enhancement are presented for some representative fingerprint images.
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