Inpainting Diffusion Synthetic and Data Augment With Feature Keypoints for Tiny Partial Fingerprints

Abstract

The advancement of fingerprint research within public academic circles has been trailing behind facial recognition, primarily due to the scarcity of extensive publicly available datasets, despite fingerprints being widely used across various domains. Recent progress has seen the application of deep learning techniques to synthesize fingerprints, predominantly focusing on large-area fingerprints within existing datasets. However, with the emergence of AIoT and edge devices, the importance of tiny partial fingerprints has been underscored for their faster and more cost-effective properties. Yet, there remains a lack of publicly accessible datasets for such fingerprints. To address this issue, we introduce publicly available datasets tailored for tiny partial fingerprints. Using advanced generative deep learning, we pioneer diffusion methods for fingerprint synthesis. By combining random sampling with inpainting diffusion guided by feature keypoints masks, we enhance data augmentation while preserving key features, achieving up to 99.1% recognition matching rate. To demonstrate the usefulness of our fingerprint images generated using our approach, we conducted experiments involving model training for various tasks, including denoising, deblurring, and deep forgery detection. The results showed that models trained with our generated datasets outperformed those trained without our datasets or with other synthetic datasets. This indicates that our approach not only produces diverse fingerprints but also improves the model’s generalization capabilities. Furthermore, our approach ensures confidentiality without compromise by partially transforming randomly sampled synthetic fingerprints, which reduces the likelihood of real fingerprints being leaked. The total number of generated fingerprints published in this article amounts to 818,077. Moving forward, we are ongoing updates and releases to contribute to the advancement of the tiny partial fingerprint field. The code and our generated tiny partial fingerprint dataset can be accessed at https://github.com/Hsu0623/Inpainting-Diffusion-Synthetic-and-Data-Augment-with-Feature-Keypoints-for-Tiny-Partial-Fingerprints.git