• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.24 no.1
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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.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.7
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• pp.911-921
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• 2004

Accurate minutiae extraction from input fingerprint images is one of the critical modules in robust automatic fingerprint identification system. However, the performance of a minutiae extraction is heavily dependent on the quality of the input fingerprint images. If the preprocessing is performed according to the fingerprint image characteristics in the image enhancement step, the system performance will be more robust. In this paper, we propose a knowledge-based preprocessing method, which extracts S features (the mean and variance of gray values, block directional difference, orientation change level, and ridge-valley thickness ratio) from the fingerprint images and analyzes image quality with Ward's clustering algorithm, and enhances the images with respect to oily/neutral/dry characteristics. Experimental results using NIST DB 4 and Inha University DB show that clustering algorithm distinguishes the image Quality characteristics well. In addition, the performance of the proposed method is assessed using quality index and block directional difference. The results indicate that the proposed method improves both the quality index and block directional difference.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.529-531
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• 2003

지문영상으로부터 특징점을 정확하게 추출하는 것은 효과적인 지문인식 시스템 구축에 매우 중요하다. 하지만 입력영상의 품질에 따라 특징점 추출의 정확도가 좌우되기 때문에 영상 전처리 과정이 필요하다. 대부분의 품질평가 연구들이 매우 낮은 품질의 영상 제거나 제안하는 방법의 성능평가를 위해 진행되었다. 본 논문에서는 입력영상으로부터 명암값의 평균 및 분산, 블록방향성차, 방향성 변화도, 융선과 골 두께 비율 등 5가지 특징을 추출하여 계층적 클러스터링 알고리즘을 이용하여 영상특성을 분석 후, oily/neutral/dry 특성에 적합하게 영상을 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. NIST DB 4와 인하대학교 데이터를 이용하여 실험한 결과, 클러스터링을 통해 영상의 특성을 제대로 구분함을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 제안한 적응적 전처리 방법이 성능평가를 위해 측정한 quality index와 블록방향성차를 향상시킴을 확인할 수 있었다.