Two-Level Evaluation on Sensor Interoperability of Features in Fingerprint Image Segmentation 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2012, 12, 3186-3199; doi:10.3390/s120303186 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Two-Level Evaluation on Sensor Interoperability of Features in Fingerprint Image Segmentation Gongping Yang, Ying Li, Yilong Yin * and Ya-Shuo Li School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250101, Shandong, China; E-Mails: gpyang@ (G.Y.); liying200606@163.com (Y.L.); lys.syl@163.com (Y.-S.L.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ylyin@; Tel./Fax: +86-531-8839-1367. Received: 9 February 2012; in revised form: 22 February 2012 / Accepted: 22 February 2012 / Published: 7 March 2012 Abstract: Features used in fingerprint segmentation significantly affect the segmentation performance. Various features exhibit different discriminating abilities on fingerprint images derived from different sensors. One feature which has better discriminating ability on images derived from a certain sensor may not adapt to segment images derived from other sensors. This degrades the segmentation performance. This paper empirically analyzes the sensor interoperability problem of segmentation feature, which refers to the feature’s ability to adapt to the raw fingerprints captured by different sensors. To address this issue, this paper presents a two-level feature evaluation method, including the first level feature evaluation based on segmentation error rate and the second level feature evaluation based on decision tree. The proposed method is performed on a number of fingerprint databases which are obtained from various sensors. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively evaluate the sensor interoperability of features, and the features with good evaluation results acquire better segmentation accuracies of images originating from different sensors. Keywords: fingerprint segmentation; feature evaluation;