Title :
A hybrid algorithm for fingerprint enhancement
Author :
Hashad, Fatma G. ; Halim, Tadros M. ; Diab, Salaheldin M. ; Sallam, Bassiouny M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Commun., Menoufia Univ., Menouf, Egypt
Abstract :
Quality enhancement of fingerprint images is important for a good performance of Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). In this paper, a hybrid fingerprint enhancement algorithm is presented. This algorithm is based on morphological enhancement in the additive wavelet transform domain and Wave Atom denoising. The performance of the proposed algorithm has been evaluated on a set of images. The results are compared with the results obtained using morphological enhancement, only. Our proposed algorithm has given a better performance than using morphological enhancement, only.
Keywords :
fingerprint identification; image denoising; image enhancement; mathematical morphology; wavelet transforms; automatic fingerprint identification system; hybrid fingerprint enhancement algorithm; morphological enhancement; quality enhancement; wave atom denoising; wavelet transform domain; Bifurcation; Biometrics; Fingerprint recognition; Fingers; Image matching; Morphological operations; Morphology; Noise reduction; Shape; Wavelet transforms;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Engineering & Systems, 2009. ICCES 2009. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5842-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5843-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICCES.2009.5383311
