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In order to improve the quality of fingerprint with a large noise, this study proposes a fingerprint enhancement method by using a sparse representation of learned multi-scale classification dictionaries with reduced dimensionality. The multi-scale dictionary is used to balance the contradiction between the accuracy and the anti-noise ability, whic...
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... Liu et al. [32] propose multi-scale sparse coded dictionaries for enhancement. Xu et al. [62] learn multi-scale dictionaries and exploit principal component analysis (PCA) for reducing dimensionality of dictionaries. Fingerprint image is enhanced using these dictionaries and spectra diffusion. ...
The state-of-the-art fingerprint matching systems achieve high accuracy on good quality fingerprints. However, degraded fingerprints obtained due to poor skin conditions of subjects or fingerprints obtained around a crime scene often have noisy background and poor ridge structure. Such degraded fingerprints pose problem for the existing fingerprint recognition systems. This paper presents a fingerprint restoration model for a poor quality fingerprint that reconstructs a binarized fingerprint image with an improved ridge structure. In particular, we demonstrate the effectiveness of channel refinement in fingerprint restoration. The state-of-the-art channel refinement mechanisms, such as Squeeze and Excitation (SE) block, in general, create SE- block introduce redundancy among channel weights and degrade the performance of fingerprint enhancement models. We present a lightweight attention mechanism that performs channel refinement by reducing redundancy among channel weights of the convolutional kernels. Restored fingerprints generated after introducing proposed channel refinement unit obtain improved quality scores on standard fingerprint quality assessment tool. Furthermore, restored fingerprints achieve improved fingerprint matching performance. We also illustrate that the idea of introducing a channel refinement unit is generalizable to different deep architectures. Additionally, to quantify the ridge preservation ability of the model, standard metrics: Dice score, Jaccard Similarity, SSIM and PSNR are computed with the ground truth and the output of the model (CR-GAN). An ablation study is conducted to individually quantify the improvement of generator and discriminator sub-networks of CR-GAN through channel refinement. Experiments on the publicly available IIITD- MOLF, Rural Indian Fingerprint Database and a private rural fingerprint database demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed attention mechanism.
