Fingerprint Image Enhancement

Conference Paper

Rahal, Dr. Feryal I. Haj Hassan & Dr. Salah M. . 2010

• اسم المؤتمر: The Third International Conference on the Application of Digital Information and Web Technologies-ICADIWT2010
• عنوان المؤتمر: Fifth University, Istanbul, Turky
• تاريخ المؤتمر: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 12, 2010
• مستخلص المنشور:

  The performance of fingerprint recognition algorithms is highly affected by the quality of the input fingerprint images. Fingerprint images are rarely of perfect quality. They may be degraded and corrupted due to variations in skin and impression conditions. Thus, image enhancement techniques are often employed to reduce the noise and enhance the definition of ridges against valleys.

  The objective of this paper is to present a fingerprint image enhancement approach. Two methods are adopted for Image Enhancement: the first one is based on Fourier Transform and the other is Histogram Equalization. The input images are fingerprint images from FVC2002 database. The experiment results suggest that our enhanced algorithm achieves visibly good results with relatively modest computation time.