Fingerprint has continued to play very important roles in human identification and
verification. A number of Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) have been
developed for human security and control. Several yardsticks including the degree or level
of verification and identification are being considered for the determination of the soundness
and contribution of these systems. The well being of the fingerprint image in term of quality
as well as the adequacy level of the implemented algorithm are some of the basic …

Fingerprint has remained a very vital index for human recognition. In the field of security,
series of Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) have been developed. One of
the indices for evaluating their contributions to the enforcement of security is the degree with
which they appropriately verify or identify fingerprint images. This degree is generally
determined by the quality of the images and the efficiency of the algorithm. In this paper, a
modified version of an existing mathematical algorithm for improving the quality of fingerprint …