指紋作為最常用的生物特徵之一，被廣泛應用在各個領域上。指紋識別也已經被研究了幾十年，然而即使是最先進的識別方法的表現，也會因為指紋質量受到很大的影響。如果能找出這些低質量有缺陷的區域，我們可以針對這些區域做處理，來提高識別率。
在本篇論文中，我們提出了一個基於全卷積網路的指紋缺陷區塊偵測系統。該系統能夠在指紋圖像中偵測出背景以及過乾和過濕的地方，并給出像素級別的分割。這個系統主要是利用深度神經網路在分類問題上有效的特徵學習能力和極高的準確率，結合全卷積網路能做像素級別分割的特點，來實現對指紋缺陷區域的偵測。為了解決缺少用於給全卷積網路訓練的分割資料問題，我們提出了一種指紋合成的方法，能生成帶有缺陷區域的指紋圖像，并能同時得到這些缺陷區域在哪些像素上。此外我們還將我們的網路在指紋區塊上作為一個分類器來做預訓練，學習不同類別指紋的特征，來在分割問題上獲得更好的表現。在我們的實驗中，結果證明該系統能與現有的指紋識別方法結合，提升識別率。

Fingerprint, one of the most popular and acceptable biometric features, is widely used in all kinds of fields. Fingerprint recognition technology has been researched for decades. However, even the state-of-the-art recognition approach, its performance depends greatly on the fingerprint quality. If we can detect the defective or low-quality regions in fingerprint images, we can repair them or downgrade these regions to improve the recognition performance.
In this thesis, we propose a system for defective region detection from fingerprint images based on fully convolutional network (FCN). This system can detect defective regions which are too dry, too wet, or belongs to the background, in the pixel-wise level. The proposed region detection algorithm takes advantage of the high classification accuracy and great learning power of the deep neural network. Combined with the feature of FCN for pixel-wise prediction, we can accomplish the task of defective region detection. With pre-training on fingerprint patches and the defective fingerprint synthesis approach, we develop a FCN model with satisfactory performance on the fingerprint segmentation task. At last, our experiments show that the proposed FCN fingerprint segmentation model can be used to improve the fingerprint recognition accuracy by integrating it with the existing fingerprint recognition system.

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