Image Analysis Fuzzy System

Abdelwahed Motwakel,Adnan Shaout,Anwer Mustafa Hilal,Manar Ahmed Hamza International Journal of Computer ScienceNetwork S 2024 International journal of computer science and netw Vol.24 No.1

The fingerprint image quality relies on the clearness of separated ridges by valleys and the uniformity of the separation. The condition of skin still dominate the overall quality of the fingerprint. However, the identification performance of such system is very sensitive to the quality of the captured fingerprint image. Fingerprint image quality analysis and enhancement are useful in improving the performance of fingerprint identification systems. A fuzzy technique is introduced in this paper for both fingerprint image quality analysis and enhancement. First, the quality analysis is performed by extracting four features from a fingerprint image which are the local clarity score (LCS), global clarity score (GCS), ridge_valley thickness ratio (RVTR), and the Global Contrast Factor (GCF). A fuzzy logic technique that uses Mamdani fuzzy rule model is designed. The fuzzy inference system is able to analyse and determinate the fingerprint image type (oily, dry or neutral) based on the extracted feature values and the fuzzy inference rules. The percentages of the test fuzzy inference system for each type is as follow: For dry fingerprint the percentage is 81.33, for oily the percentage is 54.75, and for neutral the percentage is 68.48. Secondly, a fuzzy morphology is applied to enhance the dry and oily fingerprint images. The fuzzy morphology method improves the quality of a fingerprint image, thus improving the performance of the fingerprint identification system significantly. All experimental work which was done for both quality analysis and image enhancement was done using the DB_ITS_2009 database which is a private database collected by the department of electrical engineering, institute of technology Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya, Indonesia. The performance evaluation was done using the Feature Similarity index (FSIM). Where the FSIM is an image quality assessment (IQA) metric, which uses computational models to measure the image quality consistently with subjective evaluations. The new proposed system outperformed the classical system by 900% for the dry fingerprint images and 14% for the oily fingerprint images.

A Novel Hybrid Gabor Filter Based On Automatic Wavelet Selection With Application To Fingerprint Enhancement

보안공학연구지원센터(IJHIT) 보안공학연구지원센터 2015 International Journal of Hybrid Information Techno Vol.8 No.4

For decades, Image enhancement techniques have been pushing the envelope of image processing applications. The aim of image enhancement is to recover the information perception contained in the image for human eyes besides delivering the best input for image processing systems. Fingerprint system is one of the most popular image processing system, The performance of any fingerprint system highly depends on the fingerprint image quality; therefore, fingerprint image enhancement is an essential stage in fingerprint systems. Gabor filtering has been widely used to facilitate various fingerprint applications. Meanwhile, enhancement using Gabor filter still has several drawbacks. In the present enhancement approach, we propose an active hybrid contextual module used for image enhancement. In order to prove the efficiency and effectiveness the proposed algorithm applied to fingerprint image. The proposed filter methodology includes eight stages, each one designed for a particular image defect, which can much improve the clarity and continuity of ridge structures, link broken ridges and reduce the false minutia. The experimental results show that the enhanced image quality by using our algorithm has higher performance, robustness and versatility. Presented approach might be useful for many applications related to digital image processing, computer vision.

Adaptive fingerprint image enhancement with fingerprint image quality analysis

Yun, Eun-Kyung,Cho, Sung-Bae Butterworths 2006 Image and vision computing Vol.24 No.1

<P><B>Abstract</B></P><P>Accurate minutiae extraction from fingerprint images is heavily dependent on the quality of the fingerprint images. In order to improve the performance of the system, much effort has been made on the image enhancement algorithms. If the preprocessing is adaptive to the fingerprint image characteristics in the image enhancement step, the performance gets to be more robust. In this paper, we propose an adaptive preprocessing method, which extracts five features from the fingerprint images, analyzes image quality with clustering method, and enhances the images according to their characteristics. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method improves the performance of the fingerprint identification significantly.</P>

파워마스크를 이용한 영상 핑거프린트 정합 성능 개선

서진수 한국멀티미디어학회 2020 멀티미디어학회논문지 Vol.23 No.1

For a reliable fingerprinting system, improving fingerprint matching accuracy is crucial. In this paper, we try to improve a binary image fingerprint matching performance by utilizing auxiliary information, power mask, which is obtained while constructing fingerprint DB. The power mask is an expected robustness of each fingerprint bit. A caveat of the power mask is the increased storage cost of the fingerprint DB. This paper mitigates the problem by reducing the size of the power mask utilizing spatial correlation of an image. Experiments on a publicly-available image dataset confirmed that the power mask is effective in improving fingerprint matching accuracy.

Recognizable-Image Selection for Fingerprint Recognition With a Mobile-Device Camera

Dongjae Lee,Kyoungtaek Choi,Heeseung Choi,Jaihie Kim IEEE 2008 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics Vol.38 No.1

<P>This paper proposes a recognizable-image selection algorithm for fingerprint-verification systems that use a camera embedded in a mobile device. A recognizable image is defined as the fingerprint image which includes the characteristics that are sufficiently discriminating an individual from other people. While general camera systems obtain focused images by using various gradient measures to estimate high-frequency components, mobile cameras cannot acquire recognizable images in the same way because the obtained images may not be adequate for fingerprint recognition, even if they are properly focused. A recognizable image has to meet the following two conditions: First, valid region in the recognizable image should be large enough compared with other nonrecognizable images. Here, a valid region is a well-focused part, and ridges in the region are clearly distinguishable from valleys. In order to select valid regions, this paper proposes a new focus-measurement algorithm using the secondary partial derivatives and a quality estimation utilizing the coherence and symmetry of gradient distribution. Second, rolling and pitching degrees of a finger measured from the camera plane should be within some limit for a recognizable image. The position of a core point and the contour of a finger are used to estimate the degrees of rolling and pitching. Experimental results show that our proposed method selects valid regions and estimates the degrees of rolling and pitching properly. In addition, fingerprint-verification performance is improved by detecting the recognizable images.</P>

고속 푸리에 변환(fast Fourier transform, FFT)을 이용한 겹친지문 분리의 효과와 한계

김채원,김채린,이한나,유제설,장윤식 한국경호경비학회 2019 시큐리티연구 Vol.- No.61

Photography is the most commonly used method of documenting the crime and incident scene as it helps maintaining chain of custody (COC) and prove integrity of the physical evidence. It can also capture phenomena as they are. However, digital images can be manipulated and lose their authenticity as admissible evidence. Thus only limited techniques can be used to enhance images, and one of them is Fourier transform. Fourier transform refers to transformation of images into frequency signals. Fast Fourier transform (FFT) is used in this study. In this experiment, we overlapped fingerprints with graph paper or other fingerprints and separated the fingerprints. Then we evaluated and compared quality of the separated fingerprints to the original fingerprints, and examined whether the two fingerprints can be identified as same fingerprints. In the case of the fingerprints on graph paper and general pattern-overlapping fingerprints, fingerprint ridges are enhanced. On the other hand, in case of separating complicated fingerprints such as core-to-core overlapping and delta-to-delta overlapping fingerprints, quality of fingerprints can be deteriorated. Quality of fingerprints is known to possibly bring negative effects on the credibility of examiners. The result of this study may be applicable to other areas using digital imaging enhancement technology. 사진은 가장 일반적으로 사용되는 현장 기록 방법으로, 증거물 관리의 연속성을 유지하고 현상을 있는 그대로 담아낼 수 있기 때문에 범죄수사 및 각종 사고조사에 널리 이용된다. 최근에는 디지털 카메라가 이용되기 때문에 이미지 조작에 따른 진정성(authenticity) 훼손위험이 있어 이미지 증강에 사용할 수 있는 방법이 제한적인데, 그 중 널리 활용되는 하나가 푸리에 변환 (Fourier transform)이다. 푸리에 변환은 이미지를 주파수 신호로 변환하는 것으로, 본 연구에서는 fast Fourier transform (FFT)을 사용하였다. 본 실험에서는 지문을 규칙적인 패턴을 가진 모눈종이나 또 다른 지문과 겹치게 한 뒤 FFT로 분리하였다. 그리고 원래의 지문과 분리한 지문의 품질을 각각 평가하고 비교하였으며, 두 지문이 같은 지문으로 판정될 수 있는지 검사하였다. 규칙적인 패턴을 가진 배경에 찍힌 지문이나 general pattern끼리 겹쳐진 지문을 분리한 경우 지문 융선이 증강되어 식별에 용이하였다. 하지만 core나 delta와 같이 복잡한 패턴끼리 겹쳐진 지문의 경우 원래의 지문보다 FFT로 분리하여 얻은 지문의 품질이 낮고 식별오류가 많았다. 지문 품질의 저하는 감정관의 신뢰성에 부정적 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 연구의 주요 논점은 지문감정 이외에도 디지털이미지 개선기술이 활용되는 여러 상황에서 참고할 수 있을 것이다.

방향척도을 이용한 지문영상 분류에 관한 연구

김수겸,Kim, S.G. 한국정보통신학회 2007 한국정보통신학회논문지 Vol.11 No.1

지문영상 분류는 특징을 이용하여 여러 가지 유형의 지문영상으로 분류하는 것으로, 지문영상 자동인식시스팀에서 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는, 지문영상의 한 점에서의 방향척도를 제안하였다. 이 방향척도는 지문영상의 방향장 영상에서 융선 방향의 변화경로를 상술하는 것으로 지문영상의 각각의 점에 대하여 제안된 방향척도를 계산한다. 제안한 알고리즘을 이용하여 지문영상을 특징점(핵심점과 삼각점)을 정의한 후 유형별로 분류하였다. 또한 개선된 Poincare 지수 알고리즘도 제안하여 핵심점과 삼각점을 구분하였다. 102개의 지문영상 실험 데이터에 대한 분류에러는 7.8%로서 문헌[9]의 분류오차 12.4%보다 좋은 실험결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 제안한 방법은 온라인 지문영상 분류에도 사용가능 할 것으로 생각한다. The classification of fingerprint images is to classify fingerprint images into varies fingerprint types, it is very important in automatic fingerprint recognition. In this paper, a new singular points detection technique was presented. A direction uniform measure is defined to describe the changes of direction fields in a certain neighborhood of fingerprint images. Singular points can be detected by adopting the measure. It should be pointed out that singular points in accurate positions would be obtained in this ways. And an improved Poincare exponential algorithm is presented to identify core points and triangle points. In this paper. making use of 102 experimental fingerprint images datas and attained 7.8% classification errors. This was better than experimental result of abstract [9]. It is possible to use on-line fingerprint images classification.

블록 비교를 이용한 내용기반 동영상 복사 검색용 영상 지문

나상일(Sang-il Na),진주경(Ju-Kyoun Jin),조주희(Ju-Hee Cho),오원근(Weon-Geun Oh),정동석(Dong-Seok Jeong) 大韓電子工學會 2010 電子工學會論文誌-SP (Signal processing) Vol.47 No.5

동영상 복사 검출을 위해서 사용되는 내용기반 정보는 크게 공간적인 정보와 시간적인 정보로 나눌 수 있다. 이 중에 공간적인 정보는 내용기반 영상 지문(fingerprint)을 의미한다. 이러한 영상 지문이 갖추어야 할 바람직한 특성으로는 추출이 간단해야 하며, 서로 다른 영상에서는 어느 정도 거리를 갖는 독립성(independence)을 가져야 하되, 변형된 영상과 원본 영상 사이에서는 짧은 거리가 나와야 하는 강인성을 가져야 하며 또한 정합 속도가 빨라야 한다. 본 논문에서는 내용기반 동영상 복사검출을 위해 공간 정보를 사용한 새로운 영상 지문을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법에서는 블록 영역의 평균과 1차, 2차 미분 값을 사용하는데 이러한 방법은 특징 추출 시 덧셈과 뺄셈만을 사용하므로 빠른 추출이 가능하고, 강인성과 독립성을 모두 가진다. 또한 사용된 특징 비교를 통해 2진화하고, 거친 지문과 미세 지문의 단계적 처리 방법을 사용하여 빠른 정합이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG-7의 VCE7실험 조건을 사용하였으며 다수의 변형된 영상을 이용하여 제안된 방법의 성능을 검증 하였다. Two types of informations are used for content-based video copy detection: spatial information and temporal information. The spatial information means content-based image fingerprint. This image fingerprint must have following characteristic. First, Extraction is simple. Second, pairwise independence for random selected two images. At last, Robust for modifications. This paper proposed image fingerprint method for contents based video copy detection. Proposed method's extraction speed is fast because this method's using block average, first order differentiation and second order differentiation that can be calculated add and minus operation. And it has pairwise independence and robust against modifications. Also, proposed method feature makes binary by comparisons and using coarse to fine structure, so it's matching speed is fast. Proposed method is verified by modified image that modified by VCE7's experimental conditions in MPEG7.

개선된 전처리 과정을 이용한 지문 인식 시스템

이동욱,안도랑,이지원,Lee Dong-Wook,Ahn Do-Rang,Lee Jee-Won 한국융합신호처리학회 2006 융합신호처리학회 논문지 (JISPS) Vol.7 No.2

지문에 기반을 둔 인식시스템은 오래 전부터 사용되었다. 지문은 이미 잘 알려진 바와 마찬가지로 개개인이 서로 다른 특징을 가지고 있기 때문에, 가장 널리 사용되는 생체계측적인 특징의 하나이다. 그러나 지문 인식 시스템은 입력 지문 영상의 상태가 나쁜 경우 인식 성능이 크게 저하되는 치명적인 약점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이런 문제점을 해결하기 위해 향상된 방향과 향상된 이진화 및 세선화 영상을 이용한 영상 향상 알고리즘을 전처리 과정에서 사용한다. 영상 향상의 목적은 입력 지문 이미지의 품질을 정확히 측정하고, 지문 영상의 융선과 골의 구조를 개선시키는 것이다. 또한 인식 속도를 향상시키기 위하여 색인 테이블을 사용한 융선의 방향 정보 추출 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 지문 인식 시스템이 특징점 추출과 인식 성능에서 향상되었음을 실험을 통해서 확인할 수 있었다. Fingerprint-based verification system has been used for a very long time. Because of their well-known uniqueness and immutability, fingerprint is one of the most widely used biometric features. However, fingerprint identification system has such a critical weakness that the performance of verification is reduced drastically for a poor input fingerprint. In this paper, an image enhancement algorithm using enhanced direction and enhanced binary and aiming image is used to mitigate the problem in the preprocessing. The goal of image enhancement is to estimate the quality of input fingerprint image and to improve the clarity of ridge and valley structures of input fingerprint image. Also, a ridge orientation extraction method using index table is proposed to improve the speed of verification. It is shown by the experiments that proposed fingerprint verification system improves the minutiae extraction accuracy and performance of verification.

Joint Fingerprinting/Encryption for Medical Image Security

Conghuan Ye,Zenggang Xiong,Yaoming Ding,Xueming Zhang,Guangwei Wang,Fang Xu 보안공학연구지원센터 2015 International Journal of Security and Its Applicat Vol.9 No.1

Electronic health records (EHRs) facilitates the healthcare process. However, it can also cause serious security and privacy problems. While various conventional encryption mechanisms can solve some aspects of these problems, they cannot address the illegal distribution of decrypted medical images. To protect decrypted medical images from being illegally distributed by an authorized staff member, the scheme proposed in this paper provides a joint fingerprinting and encryption (JFE) scheme based on GoL (Game of Life) and DNA computing with the purpose of protecting medical media distribution. In this study, GoL and DNA are used to confuse in DWT domain and diffusion in spatial domain respectively, and fingerprints are embedded into the HL and LH subbands of DWT domain. The use of fingerprinting along with encryption can provide a double-layer of protection to medical image. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.