Partial Fingerprint Image Enhancement using Region Division Technique and Morphological Transform

Authors

  • A. Ahmad Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan
  • I. Arshad Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan
  • G. Raja Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan

Abstract

Fingerprints are the most renowned biometric trait for identification and verification. The quality of fingerprint image plays a vital role in feature extraction and matching. Existing algorithms work well for good quality fingerprint images and fail for partial fingerprint images as they are obtained from excessively dry fingers or affected by disease resulting in broken ridges. We propose an algorithm to enhance partial fingerprint images using morphological operations with region division technique. The proposed method divides low quality image into six regions from top to bottom. Morphological operations choose an appropriate Structuring Element (SE) that joins broken ridges and thus enhance the image for further processing. The proposed method uses SE “line†with suitable angle 𜃠and radius 𑟠in each region based on the orientation of the ridges. The algorithm is applied to 14 low quality fingerprint images from FVC-2002 database. Experimental results show that percentage accuracy has been improved using the proposed algorithm. The manual markup has been reduced and accuracy of 76.16% with Equal Error Rate (EER) of 3.16% is achieved.

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28-05-2015

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A. Ahmad, I. Arshad, and G. Raja, “Partial Fingerprint Image Enhancement using Region Division Technique and Morphological Transform”, The Nucleus, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 63–70, May 2015.

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