Dictionary Based Renovation from Minuzie to Image

R. Preethika, J. Naveen Kumar

Abstract: The set of minuzie points is considered to be most unique features for fingerprint delineation and is largely applicator in fingerprint matching. It was believed that only minuzie points do not contain sufficient information to renovate the original fingerprint image from which minuzie was excerpt. However, recent studies have shown that it is indeed possible to renovate fingerprint images from their minuzie delineation. In this paper, the previous experience about fingerprint ridge structures is conceal in terms of orientation patch and continuous phase patch dictionaries to improve the fingerprint renovation. The orientation patch dictionary is used to renovate the orientation field from minuzie, while the continuous phase patch dictionary is used to renovate the ridge pattern.

Keywords: fingerprint renovation, orientation patch dictionary, continuous phase patch dictionary, minuzie set