An Approach For

Minutiae – based
Fingerprint Image Pre-
Processing for
Feature Extraction
 Objective
To enhance the fingerprint image of
pre-processing for feature
extraction.
Especially when image is blurring,
and suffer from salt and pepper
noise.
 Process
1.0 Contrast Enhancement

Original Image
 Process cont..

Stretching
Image
 Process cont..
2.0 Median filtering noise reduction
After Filtering

Stretching
Image
 Process cont..
3.0 Binarization

Binarization
Median Image
Filtering Image
 Process cont..
4.0 Cropping and oversampling
Cropping
Image

Binarization
Image
 Process cont..
4.0 Thinning Thinning Image

Cropping
Image
 Process cont..
• 5.0 Dilation
Dilation Image

Thinning Image
 Conclusion
 In our pre-processing image stage, the fingerprint
features are successfully enhanced and reduce the
noise present in the image.
 The image are ready to be use in feature extraction
module which to determine the termination and
bifurcation point.

Bifurcation Termination