Paper Info
Title
Coupling orientation diffusion with coherence-enhancing diffusion: a fingerprint case.
Abstract
The enhancement of coherent flow-like structures is desired for many image processing tasks, such as segmentation and feature detection. This task can be accomplished in a natural way by adopting anisotropic diffusion filtering using a diffusion matrix adapted to the local structure. This method is referred to as coherence-enhancing diffusion (CED). The performance of CED can be analyzed by observing the evolution of the orientation field (OF) associated with an evolving diffusion matrix. It was revealed from a series of experiments that the final OF from a CED-enhanced image sometimes strays from its true underlying OF (marked by a human expert), degrading its performance. In this paper, a strategy is proposed which repeatedly cleans the OF associated with a diffusion matrix. Thus, for every iteration of CED, its OF is diffused separately until it converges and is then fed back to the CED process to move forward. This hypothesis is tested with the motive of getting an enhanced CED performance. The proposed scheme is validated using fingerprint data, and their numerical results are displayed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s11760-017-1187-3
Signal, Image and Video Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Orientation diffusion, Coherence-enhancing diffusion, Fingerprint image enhancement, Orientation field estimation
Anisotropic diffusion,Computer vision,Coupling,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Segmentation,Matrix (mathematics),Image processing,Local structure,Fingerprint,Coherence (physics),Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
3
1863-1703
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammad A. Khan19911.58
Tariq Mahmood214915.94
D. G. Bailey37116.88