Image quality of fingerprint can help determine the probability of successful matching, poor quality enrollment, or problem diagnostics and performance assessment of capture devices.
IQF (Image Quality of Fingerprint) Software Application
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Knowledge of the image quality of a fingerprint is important and useful information in a variety of applications; it can, for example, help determine the probability of successful matching, alert an operator to a poor quality enrollment, or aid problem diagnostics/performance assessment of capture devices. This document describes a quantitative measure of image quality (developed by the author) which is tailored to measure the visual quality of a digital fingerprint image. This Image Quality of Fingerprint (IQF) metric is available as a freeware software application.