Automatic Cropping Fingermarks: Latent Fingerprint Segmentation
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We present a simple but effective method for automatic latent fingerprint segmentation, called SegFinNet. SegFinNet takes a latent image as an input and outputs a binary mask highlighting the friction ridge pattern. Our algorithm combines fully convolutional neural network and detection-based approach to process the entire input latent image in one shot instead of using latent patches. Experimental results on three different latent databases (i.e. NIST SD27, WVU, and an operational forensic database) show that SegFinNet outperforms both human markup for latents and the state-of-the-art latent segmentation algorithms. Our latent segmentation algorithm takes on average 457 (NIST SD27) and 361 (WVU) msec/latent on Nvidia GTX Ti 1080 with 12GB memory machine. We show that this improved cropping, in turn, boosts the hit rate of a latent fingerprint matcher.
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