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This paper presents a new method to enhance the fingerprint orientation image. Orientation, as a global feature of fingerprint, is very important to image preprocessing methods used in automatic fingerprint identification systems (AFIS). The most popular, gradient-based method is very sensitive to noise (image quality). Proposed algorithmis an application of gradient-basedmethod combined with more resistant to noise pixel-alignment-basedmethod. Experimental results show that the proposed method is robust to noise and still maintaining accurate values in highcurvature areas.
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Wieclaw, L. (2011). Fingerprint Orientation Field Enhancement. In: Burduk, R., Kurzyński, M., Woźniak, M., Żołnierek, A. (eds) Computer Recognition Systems 4. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 95. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20320-6_4
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