Fingerprint image quality analysis

Fingerprint image quality analysis is crucial in eliminating poor fingerprint images, which will affect the performance of the automatic fingerprint identification system. In this article, two types of new quality measures will be introduced: ridge and valley clarity and global orientation flow to calculate the overall image quality score that can be used to quantitatively determine the quality of the fingerprint image. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, the quality measure is used to rank the performance of a fingerprint recognition system and the ranking is compared with the quality measure rated manually. The result shows that the proposed scheme will return a score that ensures its reliability to indicate the quality of a given fingerprint image.