Rolled fingerprint construction using MRF-based nonrigid image registration

  • Authors:
  • Dongjin Kwon;Il Dong Yun;Sang Uk Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, ASRI, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea;Department of Digital Information Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, Korea;Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, ASRI, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper proposes a new rolled fingerprint construction approach incorporating a state-of-the-art nonrigid image registration method based upon a Markov random field (MRF) energy model. The proposed method finds dense correspondences between images from a rolled fingerprint sequence and warps the entire fingerprint area to synthesize a rolled fingerprint. This method can generate conceptually more accurate rolled fingerprints by preserving the geometric properties of the finger surface as opposed to ink-based rolled impressions and other existing rolled fingerprint construction methods. To verify the accuracy of the proposed method, various comparative experiments were designed to reveal differences among the rolled construction methods. The results show that the proposed method is significantly superior in various aspects compared to previous approaches.