The invention discloses a
fingerprint image enhancing method, and belongs to the technical field of
image processing. The method comprises the following steps of: performing gray shearing and gray stretching on
fingerprint foreground region image gray to obtain
fingerprint foreground region image gray2; performing
Gaussian filtration on the fingerprint foreground region image gray2 by using a
Gaussian filter g sigma, and calculating a normalized fingerprint gradient vector; then constructing a
structure tensor, and calculating the direction field of fingerprint
ridge lines; and finally, constructing two one-dimensional anisotropic filters to perform two-time
filtration enhancement on the fingerprint foreground region image gray2 to obtain a final
filtration enhanced fingerprint foreground region image. Based on a
nonlinear diffusion model and the normalized
structure tensor, the method can effectively remove various structural noises, reduce the dynamic change range between the fingerprint
ridge lines and the valley lines and connect certain broken fingerprint
ridge lines at the same time. The method has good enhancement effect and characteristic of effectively saving the time, and can meet the requirement of on-line fingerprint identification.