Abstract
The identifying features of degraded fingerprints are optically enhanced with a coherent optical processor. The spatial and spatial frequency information contained in a fingerprint and its Fourier transform are located and characterized. A spectral model is developed for each of the basic ridge pattern types. The ridges and the ridge pattern details are enhanced by filters generated from these spectral models. Experimental results are shown.
© 1985 Optical Society of America
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