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

fYear

2009

fDate

14-16 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

62

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCES.2009.5383311

Filename

5383311