Acquisition and Extraction of Surface and Internal Fingerprints from Optical Coherence Tomography through 3D Fully Convolutional Network

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-destructive, high-resolution, and non-invasive imaging technique that has recently been applied to biometric field for three dimensional (3D) fingertip data acquisition. Fingertip volume data contains the epidermis and part of the dermis layers representing the surface fingerprint and internal fingerprint, respectively. As a 3D and under skin feature, internal fingerprint provides much higher anti-counterfeiting capability compared with traditional 2D fingerprints. Furthermore, it is not affected by fingertip conditions such as wet, worn out (old) and small scars/injuries. However, the extraction of surface and internal fingerprints is challenging due to the speckle noise and ...
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