A spatial domain scar removal strategy for fingerprint image enhancement

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Highlights:

• We Model a new proposed method to make use of the Fourier domain directional field to trace an appropriate candidate for the scar pixels to be replaced with.

• The necessary components of the process are locating scars, finding the directional field, and the filling strategy.

• The strategy relies on the fact that in these linear scars, the ridge/valley pattern is still intact across the scar region.

• Using this information, the scar boundary is filled with appropriate normal region pixels using the local orientation field.

• This process can act as front-end to the subsequent Gabor and anisotropic diffusion filtering.

摘要

Highlights•We Model a new proposed method to make use of the Fourier domain directional field to trace an appropriate candidate for the scar pixels to be replaced with.•The necessary components of the process are locating scars, finding the directional field, and the filling strategy.•The strategy relies on the fact that in these linear scars, the ridge/valley pattern is still intact across the scar region.•Using this information, the scar boundary is filled with appropriate normal region pixels using the local orientation field.•This process can act as front-end to the subsequent Gabor and anisotropic diffusion filtering.

论文关键词:Fingerprint,Enhancement,Scars,Directional field

论文评审过程:Received 10 September 2015, Revised 2 April 2016, Accepted 11 May 2016, Available online 24 May 2016, Version of Record 6 June 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2016.05.015