Latent fingerprint segmentation using multi-scale attention U-Net Online publication date: Fri, 01-Mar-2024
by P. Akhila; Shashidhar G. Koolagudi
International Journal of Biometrics (IJBM), Vol. 16, No. 2, 2024
Abstract: Latent fingerprints are the fingerprints lifted from crime scene surfaces. Segmentation of latent fingerprints from the background is an important preprocessing task which is challenging due to the poor quality of the fingerprints. Though fingerprint segmentation approaches based on their orientation and frequency are reported in the literature, they could not adequately address the problem. We propose a latent fingerprint segmentation model based on the U-Net attention network in this work. We added the Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) layer to the network to facilitate multi-scale fingerprint segmentation. Our approach could effectively segment the latent fingerprint region from the background and even detect occluded and partial fingerprints with simple network architecture. To evaluate the performance, we have compared our results with the manual ground truth using NIST SD27A dataset. Our segmentation model has improved matching accuracy on the NIST SD27A dataset.
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