퓨리에 변환을 이용한 지문영상의 개선에 관한 연구

A study on the fingerpring enhancement using the fourier transform

This study intends to extract the efficient spectrum characteristics of the fingerpriint image in the fourier domain and to apply them for image enhancement. In order to effectively acquire the spectrum characteristics of the fingerprint in the fourier domain, I set up a 1*64 window as a processing unit and, combining various kinds of the record and overlap lengths, made the power spectrum density estimate for each of those combinations. each spectrum characeristic acquired was applied to a re-synthesis process of the fingerprint image, and, through comparisons and evaluations of the resultant images, an improved gray scale image could be obtained. The validity of this algorithm could be confirmed by the comparison and evaluation fo the binary images which were grained on the established method and the one I used in this experiment.