Statistical Quality Assessment of Fingerprints
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Abstract
The present invention relates generally to human fingerprints. More specifically the present invention relates to assessing the quality of a fingerprint image. An assessment is made by analyzing characteristics of image sub-regions. For example, the characteristics may include statistics that are associated with a sub-region. If a sub-region is found to have unacceptable characteristics, it can be modified through a morphological operation to compensate for the unacceptable characteristics.
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43 Claims
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28. A method to analyze a fingerprint image corresponding to a human fingerprint of a human subject, the fingerprint image including ridges and valleys, the method being performed by execution of computer readable program code by a processor of a computer system, the method comprising:
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processing the fingerprint image to segment the image into at least a plurality of subsets; for each of the subsets; determining a measure associated with fingerprint ridges and fingerprint valleys in the each of the subsets, and based on the measure, assigning the each of the subsets to at least one of a plurality of categories; assessing an overall acceptability of the fingerprint image by analyzing at least one of the plurality of categories; and causing capture of another fingerprint image from the human subject if the overall acceptability of the fingerprint image is at or below predetermined criteria, to process the other captured image. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A method to analyze a fingerprint image, the fingerprint image including ridges and valleys, the method being performed by execution of computer readable program code by a processor of a computer system, the method comprising:
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processing the fingerprint image to segment the image into at least a plurality of subsets; for each of the subsets; determining a measure associated with fingerprint ridges and fingerprint valleys in the each of the subsets, and based on the measure assigning the each of the subsets to at least one of a plurality of categories; identifying from the plurality of subsets one or more subsets corresponding to a fingerprint core, and weighing the identified one or more subsets corresponding to the fingerprint core more significantly relative to subsets that do not correspond to the fingerprint core; assessing an overall acceptability of the fingerprint image by analyzing at least one of the plurality of categories; causing capture of another fingerprint image from the human subject if the overall acceptability of the fingerprint image is at or below predetermined criteria to process the other captured image.
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37. A method to analyze a fingerprint image, the fingerprint image including ridges and valleys, the method being performed by execution of computer readable program code by a processor of a computer system, the method comprising:
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segmenting the fingerprint image into at least a plurality of subsets; and for each of the subsets; determining a statistical measure associated with fingerprint ridges and fingerprint valleys in the each of the subsets, wherein the statistical measure comprises at least a standard deviation of ridge thickness and a standard deviation of valley thickness, and based on the statistical measure, assigning the each of the subsets to at least one of a plurality of categories; and causing capture of another fingerprint image to process other captured image based on a quality associated with the fingerprint image computed based on the assigning of the each of the subsets to the at least one of the plurality of categories. - View Dependent Claims (38)
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39. A method of determining whether to accept a first fingerprint image or to cause capture of a second fingerprint image, the first fingerprint and second fingerprint images comprising a representation of a same human fingerprint, the fingerprint including ridges and valleys, the method being performed by execution of computer readable program code by a processor of a computer system, the method comprising:
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determining statistical values that are associated with at least some of the ridges and valleys; comparing the determined statistical values to predetermined acceptance criteria; performing a determination if a computed quality associated with the first fingerprint image is acceptable based on at least the comparing; and based on at least the determination, causing the capture of the second fingerprint image to process the second captured image. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43)
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