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    Latent fingerprint segmentation using multi-scale attention U-Net
    (Inderscience Publishers, 2024) Akhila, P.; Koolagudi, S.G.
    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. © 2024 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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    End-to-end latent fingerprint enhancement using multi-scale Generative Adversarial Network
    (Elsevier B.V., 2024) Pramukha, R.N.; Akhila, P.; Koolagudi, S.G.
    Latent fingerprint enhancement is paramount as it dramatically influences matching accuracy. This process is often challenging due to varying structured noise and background patterns. The prints may be of arbitrary sizes and scales with a high degree of occlusion. There is a need for creating an end-to-end system that handles different conditions reliably to streamline this often lengthy and tricky process. In this work, we propose a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based architecture that effectively captures multi-scale context using Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP). We have trained the network on a synthetically generated dataset, carefully designed to represent real-world latent prints. By avoiding the reconstruction of spurious ridges and only enhancing valid ridges, we avoid the generation of false minutiae, leading to better matching performance. We obtained state-of-the-art results in Sensor to Latent matching using the IIITD MOLF and Latent to Latent Matching using IIITD Latent datasets. © 2024 Elsevier B.V.