Operations Research Transactions ›› 2023, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (4): 1-19.doi: 10.15960/j.cnki.issn.1007-6093.2023.04.001

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Fingerprint orientation field estimation algorithm based on deep learning

Yonghong LIU1, Congying HAN2,3,*(), Tiande GUO2,3   

  1. 1. College of Big Data Statistics, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou, China
    2. School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
    3. Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • Received:2023-04-25 Online:2023-12-15 Published:2023-12-07
  • Contact: Congying HAN E-mail:hancy@ucas.ac.cn

Abstract:

As a very important feature in fingerprint images, fingerprint orientation field plays an important role in many aspects of Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), such as fingerprint image enhancement, singular point detection, fingerprint classification, etc. Although existing orientation field estimation algorithms can achieve competitive extraction results, these algorithms are sensitive to image noise and often require prior knowledge for direction calculation, which consumes a lot of time. To address this issue, a fingerprint orientation field estimation algorithm based on fully convolutional network is proposed in this paper, which uses pixel-level classification tasks to estimate fingerprint orientation field. According to the characteristics of fingerprint image and attention mechanism, we design a fully convolutional network with attention mechanism (Attention FCN) for orientation field estimation. In addition, dilated convolution layers are added to the network to extract important discriminative features in different fingerprint images. At the same time, a new loss function is designed to train the network. According to the classification results of each pixel point, the orientation field is estimated. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves good performance and very fast estimation speed, and it is very robust to image noise.

Key words: fingerprint orientation field estimation, deep learning, attention mechanism, fully convolutional network

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