A New Ridge Orientation Based Method Of Computation For Feature Extraction From Fingerprint Images

• Main Authors: Jayadevan, R., Jayant V. Kulkarni, Mali, Suresh N., Abhyankar, Hemant K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Minutia; orientation field; ridge segmentation; textured image.; Bolle; Kangerlussuaq; Prat
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1058528; https://zenodo.org/record/1058528

An important step in studying the statistics of fingerprint minutia features is to reliably extract minutia features from the fingerprint images. A new reliable method of computation for minutiae feature extraction from fingerprint images is presented. A fingerprint image is treated as a textured image. An orientation flow field of the ridges is computed for the fingerprint image. To accurately locate ridges, a new ridge orientation based computation method is proposed. After ridge segmentation a new method of computation is proposed for smoothing the ridges. The ridge skeleton image is obtained and then smoothed using morphological operators to detect the features. A post processing stage eliminates a large number of false features from the detected set of minutiae features. The detected features are observed to be reliable and accurate. : {"references": ["N. Ratha, S. Chen, and A. K. Jain, \"Adaptive flow orientation based\nfeature extraction in fingerprint images\". Pattern Recognition Vol.28, No.\n11, pp. 1657-1672, 1995.", "A. K. Jain, L. Hong, S. Pankanti, and R. Bolle, \"An Identity\nAuthentication System Using Fingerprints,\" Proc. IEEE, Vol. 85, No. 9,\npp. 1365-1388, 1997.", "A Ravishankar Rao, \"A Taxonomy for Texture Description and\nIdentification\", Springer Verlag, New York 1990.", "L. Yin, R. Yang, M. Gabbouj, Y. Neuvo. \"Weighted Median Filters: A\nTutorial\", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, 43(3), pp. 157-192,\nMarch 1996.", "B.M. Mehtre, \"Fingerprint image analysis for automatic identification\",\nMachine Vision and Applications Vol 6, pp.124-139, 1993.", "M. Kawagoe and A. Tojo, \"Fingerprint Pattern Classification,\" Pattern\nRecognition, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 295-303, 1984.", "Guo, Z., and Hall, R. W. \"Parallel thinning with two-sub iteration\nalgorithms\". Communications of the ACM Vol.32, No. 3 pp. 359-373,\nMarch 1989.", "Amengual, J. C., Juan, A., Prez, J. C., Prat, F., Sez, S., and Vilar, J. M.\n\"Real-time minutiae extraction in fingerprint images\". In Proc. of the 6th\nInt. Conf. on Image Processing and its Applications, pp. 871-875, July\n1997.", "Q. Xiao and H. Raafat. \"Fingerprint image post processing A combined\nstatistical and structural approach\", Pattern Recognition Vol. 24, No.10:\npp. 985-992, 1991.\n[10] L. Hong and A. K. Jain, \"Classification of Fingerprint Images,\" 11th\nScandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, June 7-11, Kangerlussuaq,\nGreenland, 1999."]}