A Novel Algorithm for Suppression of Salt and Pepper Impulse Noise in Fingerprint Images Using B-Spline Interpolation

Abstract

Abstract. The quality of Finger Print Images in image forensics plays a vital role in the the accuracy of biometric based identification and authentication system. To suppress the salt and pepper noise in fingerprint images, B-Splines have been used for interpolation. In this paper, a two stage novel and efficient algorithm for suppression of salt and pepper impulse noise for noise levels ranging from 15 % to 95 % using B-splines interpolation is being proposed. The algorithm removes salt and pepper impulse noise from the image in the first stage and in second stage, an edge preserving algorithm has been proposed which regularizes the edges that have been deformed during noise removal process.