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Lack of robust segmentation against degraded quality image is one of the open issues in fingerprint segmentation. Good fingerprint segmentation effectively reduces the processing time in automatic fingerprint recognition systems. Poor segmentation result in spurious and missing features thus degrading performance of overall system. Segmentation will be more effective if done in accordance to the quality of image. Fingerprint images with high quality have wide range of features which can be used for segmentation than the low quality image, where the fingerprint features are not clearly visible. This paper focus on the two folded segmentation process comprising of quality evaluation and segmentation based on it. Various global and local features are used for assessing quality of image and thereby using them for segmenting ridge area from plain background. The segmented images are compared using percentage of foreground area to total area, genuine number of minutiae points extracted from segmented area. The time taken for image segmentation is also used as a performance parameter. The proposed approach has been tested with images of different qualities from NIST and FVC data sets and the results are proven to be better than the conventional segmentation approaches.
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Arora, K., Garg, P. (2013). Quality Assessment Based Fingerprint Segmentation. In: Meghanathan, N., Nagamalai, D., Chaki, N. (eds) Advances in Computing and Information Technology. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 177. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31552-7_58
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