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Fingerprint Image Enhancement Using Steerable Filter in Wavelet Domain

Authors : K. S. Jeyalakshmi, T. Kathirvalavakumar

Published in: Intelligent Systems Design and Applications

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The proposed work is to enhance the features of the fingerprint image using steerable filter in wavelet domain to increase the accuracy and speed of Automatic fingerprint identification system. The proposed method uses steerable filter and wavelet. The steerable filter allows filtering process adaptively to any orientation and determining analytically the filter output as a function of orientation and the wavelet domain speeds up the computation process. The steerable filter is applied on each local blocks of approximation image of wavelet transform for tuning up the fingerprint image features and then smoothing the resultant which leads to enhanced image. Experiments are conducted on FVC databases and results show that enhancement process reveals clear visualization of fingerprint images.

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Metadata
Title
Fingerprint Image Enhancement Using Steerable Filter in Wavelet Domain
Authors
K. S. Jeyalakshmi
T. Kathirvalavakumar
Copyright Year
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76348-4_31

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