Segmentation Techniques through Machine Based Learning for Latent Fingerprint Indexing and Identification

201-208Latent fingerprints have become most important evidence in law enforcement department and forensic agencies worldwide. It is also very important evidence in forensic applications to identify criminals as it is mostly encountered in crime scenes. Segmentation is one of the solutions to extract quality features. Fingerprint indexing reduces the search space without compromising accuracy. In this paper, minutiae based rotational and translational features and a global matching approach in combination with local matching is used in order to boost the indexing efficiency. Also, a machine learning (ML) based segmentation model is designed as a binary classification model to classify local blocks into foreground and background. Average indexed time as well as accuracy for full as well as partial fingerprints is tabulated by varying the template sminutiae

Latent Fingerprint Indexing for Faster Retrieval from Dataset with Image Enhancement Technique

730-753Since decades fingerprints have been the prime source in identification of suspects latent fingerprints are compared and examined with rolled and plain fingerprints which are stored in the dataset. The common challenges which are faced while examining latent fingerprints are background noise, nonlinear distortions, poor ridge clarity and partial impression of the finger. As conventional methods of Segmentation doesn’t perform well on latent fingerprints. The current advancement in machine learning based segmentation approach has been showing good results in terms of segmentation accuracy but lacks to provide accurate result in terms of matching accuracy. As one of the problem faced in matching latent fingerprint is low clarity of ridge-valley pattern which results in detection of false minutiae and poor matching accuracy. A multilayer processing of artificial neural network based segmentation is proposed to minimize the detection of false minutiae and increase the matching accuracy. This approach is designed on binary classification model where the simulation will be carried out on IIIT-D latent fingerprint dataset. Segmentation will be divided into full and partial impression fingerprints which are then compared with minutiae with the database using local and global matching algorithm. An improvised result is received which is more accurate as compared to the previous algorithms

Segmentation Techniques through Machine Based Learning for Latent Fingerprint Indexing and Identification

Latent fingerprints have become most important evidence in law enforcement department and forensic agencies worldwide. It is also very important evidence in forensic applications to identify criminals as it is mostly encountered in crime scenes. Segmentation is one of the solutions to extract quality features. Fingerprint indexing reduces the search space without compromising accuracy. In this paper, minutiae based rotational and translational features and a global matching approach in combination with local matching is used in order to boost the indexing efficiency. Also, a machine learning (ML) based segmentation model is designed as a binary classification model to classify local blocks into foreground and background. Average indexed time as well as accuracy for full as well as partial fingerprints is tabulated by varying the template sminutiae

Latent Fingerprint Segmentation Based on Ridge Density and Orientation Consistency

Latent fingerprints are captured from the fingerprint impressions left unintentionally at the surfaces of the crime scene. They are often used as an important evidence to identify criminals in law enforcement agencies. Different from the widely used plain and rolled fingerprints, the latent fingerprints are usually of poor quality consisting of complex background with a lot of nonfingerprint patterns and various noises. Latent fingerprint segmentation is an important image processing step to separate fingerprint foreground from background for more accurate and efficient feature extraction and matching. Traditional methods are usually based on the local features such as gray scale variance and gradients, which are sensitive to noise and cannot work well for latent images. This paper proposes a latent fingerprint segmentation method based on combination of ridge density and orientation consistency, which are global and local features of fingerprints, respectively. First, a texture image is obtained by decomposition of latent image with a total variation model. Second, we propose to detect the ridge segments from the texture image, and then compute the density of ridge segments and ridge orientation consistency to characterize the global and local fingerprint patterns. Finally, fingerprint segmentation is performed by combining the ridge density and orientation consistency for latent images. The proposed method has been evaluated on NIST SD27 latent fingerprint database. Experimental results and comparison demonstrate the promising performance of the proposed method