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Fingerprint Orientation Refinement through Iterative Smoothing

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2017-11-10 v1

Abstract

We propose a new gradient-based method for the extraction of the orientation field associated to a fingerprint, and a regularisation procedure to improve the orientation field computed from noisy fingerprint images. The regularisation algorithm is based on three new integral operators, introduced and discussed in this paper. A pre-processing technique is also proposed to achieve better performances of the algorithm. The results of a numerical experiment are reported to give an evidence of the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.

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@article{arxiv.1711.03214,
  title  = {Fingerprint Orientation Refinement through Iterative Smoothing},
  author = {Pierluigi Maponi and Riccardo Piergallini and Filippo Santarelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.03214},
  year   = {2017}
}
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