• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.163-177
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• 2024

The fingerprint image quality relies on the clearness of separated ridges by valleys and the uniformity of the separation. The condition of skin still dominate the overall quality of the fingerprint. However, the identification performance of such system is very sensitive to the quality of the captured fingerprint image. Fingerprint image quality analysis and enhancement are useful in improving the performance of fingerprint identification systems. A fuzzy technique is introduced in this paper for both fingerprint image quality analysis and enhancement. First, the quality analysis is performed by extracting four features from a fingerprint image which are the local clarity score (LCS), global clarity score (GCS), ridge_valley thickness ratio (RVTR), and the Global Contrast Factor (GCF). A fuzzy logic technique that uses Mamdani fuzzy rule model is designed. The fuzzy inference system is able to analyse and determinate the fingerprint image type (oily, dry or neutral) based on the extracted feature values and the fuzzy inference rules. The percentages of the test fuzzy inference system for each type is as follow: For dry fingerprint the percentage is 81.33, for oily the percentage is 54.75, and for neutral the percentage is 68.48. Secondly, a fuzzy morphology is applied to enhance the dry and oily fingerprint images. The fuzzy morphology method improves the quality of a fingerprint image, thus improving the performance of the fingerprint identification system significantly. All experimental work which was done for both quality analysis and image enhancement was done using the DB_ITS_2009 database which is a private database collected by the department of electrical engineering, institute of technology Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya, Indonesia. The performance evaluation was done using the Feature Similarity index (FSIM). Where the FSIM is an image quality assessment (IQA) metric, which uses computational models to measure the image quality consistently with subjective evaluations. The new proposed system outperformed the classical system by 900% for the dry fingerprint images and 14% for the oily fingerprint images.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.8-14
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• 2020

For a reliable fingerprinting system, improving fingerprint matching accuracy is crucial. In this paper, we try to improve a binary image fingerprint matching performance by utilizing auxiliary information, power mask, which is obtained while constructing fingerprint DB. The power mask is an expected robustness of each fingerprint bit. A caveat of the power mask is the increased storage cost of the fingerprint DB. This paper mitigates the problem by reducing the size of the power mask utilizing spatial correlation of an image. Experiments on a publicly-available image dataset confirmed that the power mask is effective in improving fingerprint matching accuracy.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.390-395
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• 2000

We present a fingerprint identification algorithm using the wavelet transform and correlation. The wavelet transform is used because of its simple operation to extract fingerprint minutiaes features for fingerprint classification. We perform the rowwise 1-D wavelet transform for a $256\times256$ fingerprint image to get a $1\times256$ column vector using the Haar wavelet and repeat 1-D wavelet transform for a 1$\times$256 column vector to get a $1\times4$ feature vector. Using PNN(Probabilistic Neural Network), we select the possible candidates from the stored feature vectors for fingerprint images. For those candidates, we compute the correlation between the input binary image and the target binary image to find the most similar fingerprint image. The proposed algorithm may be the key to a low cost fingerprint identification system that can be operated on a small computer because it does not need a large memory size and much computation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.363-374
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• 2020

Fingerprint authentication identifies a user based on the individual's unique fingerprint features. Fingerprint authentication methods are used in various real-life devices because they are convenient and safe and there is no risk of leakage, loss, or oblivion. However, fingerprint authentication methods are often ineffective when there is contamination of the given image through wet, dirty, dry, or wounded fingers. In this paper, a method is proposed to remove noise from fingerprint images using a convolutional neural network. The proposed model was verified using the dataset from the ChaLearn LAP Inpainting Competition Track 3-Fingerprint Denoising and Inpainting, ECCV 2018. It was demonstrated that the model proposed in this paper obtains better results with respect to the methods that achieved high performances in the competition.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.539-543
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• 2010

We present a random bit generator that uses fingerprint image for the source of random, and random bit generator using fingerprint image for the randomness has not been presented as yet. Fingerprint image is affected by the operational environments including sensing act, nonuniform contact and inconsistent contact, and these operational environments make FPI to be used for the source of random possible. Our generator produces, on the average, 9,334 bits a fingerprint image in 0.03 second. We have used the NIST SDB14 test suite consisting of sixteen statistical tests for testing the randomness of the bit sequence generated by our generator, and as the result, the bit sequence passes all sixteen statistical tests.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.77-85
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• 2010

온라인 지문 인식 시스템에서는 주변 환경, 사용자의 지문 상태 및 입력 방법에 따라 다양한 품질의 지문이 입력된다. 따라서 지문 인식 시스템의 성능을 향상시키기 위해서는, 입력된 지문 영상을 이용하여 본인과 타인간의 변별력을 높이는 연구뿐만 아니라 다양한 품질의 지문 영상들 중에서 품질이 좋은 지문 영상을 선택하여 이를 인식에 사용하는 연구도 병행이 되어야 한다. 하지만 대부분의 기존 연구에서는 지문의 지역적인 품질만을 측정하였기 때문에 한 장의 지문영상의 품질에 대한 예측은 거의 이루어지지 않았다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 획득된 지문 영상의 품질을 판단하기 위해서 지역적인 지문 품질 측정과 이를 통한 전역적 지문 품질 측정 방볍을 제안하였다. 지역적인 지문 품질 평가에서는 각 지문 블록에서 그레디언트(Gradient)의 확률 밀도 함수(Probability Density Function)의 형태를 측정하여 블록 별 품질 값을 예측하였고, 이를 기반으로 전역적인 품질 평가에서는 신경망(Neural network)올 사용하여 지문 영상 전체를 평가함으로써 입력된 영상의 사용 여부를 판단하였다. FVC2002 데이터베이스를 사용하여 실험한 결과, 제안한 전역적 방법을 사용하였을 때 NFIQ(NIST Fingerprint Image Quality)의 방법보다 정합 예측 성능이 높게 나타난 것올 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.180-182
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• 2005

Fingerprint-based identification is known to be used for a very long time. Owing to their uniqueness and immutability, fingerprints are today the most widely used biometric features. Therefore, recognition using fingerprints is one of the safest methods as a way of personal identification. But fingerprint identification system has a critical weakness. Since the fingerprint identification time dramatically increase when we compare the unknown fingerprint's minutiae with fingerprint database's minutiae. In this paper, a ridge orientation extraction method using Index table is proposed to solve the problem. The goal of fast direction image extraction is to reduce the identification time and to improve the clarity of ridge and valley structures of input fingerprint image.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅳ
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• pp.1799-1802
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• 2003

This paper has been studied a Adaptive feature-factors based fingerprints recognition in many biometrics. we study preprocessing and matching method of fingerprints image in various circumstances by using optical fingerprint input device. The Fingerprint Recognition Technology had many development until now. But, There is yet many point which the accuracy improves with operation speed in the side. First of all we study fingerprint classification to reduce existing preprocessing step and then extract a Feature-factors with direction information in fingerprint image. Also in the paper, we consider minimization of noise for effective fingerprint recognition system.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 신호처리소사이어티 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.305-308
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• 2003

The postprocessing of fingerprint image are widely used to eliminate the false minutiae that caused by skeletonization. This paper presents a new postprocessing algorithm of the skeletonized fingerprint image using SOFM. The proposed postprocessing method showed the good performance for eliminating the spurious minutiae.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.73-80
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• 2006

지문에 기반을 둔 인식시스템은 오래 전부터 사용되었다. 지문은 이미 잘 알려진 바와 마찬가지로 개개인이 서로 다른 특징을 가지고 있기 때문에, 가장 널리 사용되는 생체계측적인 특징의 하나이다. 그러나 지문 인식 시스템은 입력 지문 영상의 상태가 나쁜 경우 인식 성능이 크게 저하되는 치명적인 약점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이런 문제점을 해결하기 위해 향상된 방향과 향상된 이진화 및 세선화 영상을 이용한 영상 향상 알고리즘을 전처리 과정에서 사용한다. 영상 향상의 목적은 입력 지문 이미지의 품질을 정확히 측정하고, 지문 영상의 융선과 골의 구조를 개선시키는 것이다. 또한 인식 속도를 향상시키기 위하여 색인 테이블을 사용한 융선의 방향 정보 추출 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 지문 인식 시스템이 특징점 추출과 인식 성능에서 향상되었음을 실험을 통해서 확인할 수 있었다.