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Figure 2.6: (a) and (c) are Input Images; (b) and (d) are enhanced recoverable regions<br />

superimposed on corresponding input images.<br />

have optimal joint resolution in both spatial and frequency domains [32]. Examples<br />

<strong>of</strong> fingerprint enhancement with Gabor filtering as proposed by Hong, Wan , and Jain<br />

are shown in Fig 2.6.<br />

2.2.2 Feature Representation and Feature Extraction<br />

A good fingerprint representation should have the following two properties: saliency<br />

and suitability. Saliency means that a representation should contain distinctive infor-<br />

mation and suitability means that the representation can be easily extracted, stored<br />

in a compact fashion, and be useful for matching. The fingerprint pattern, when<br />

analyzed at different scales, exhibit different features.<br />

• At global level: The ridge line flow, singular points (loop and delta), external<br />

fingerprint shape, orientation image, frequency image.<br />

• At local level: Minutiae (ridge termination and ridge bifurcation).<br />

• At very-thin level: Intra-ridge details (sweat pores).<br />

An elegant and practical method based on the Poincare index was proposed by<br />

Kawagoe and Tojo [58]. Let G be a vector field and C be a curve immersed in G.<br />

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