Phase Contrast Imaging of the Fingerprint by Digital Holography

Abstract:

Aiming to the special demand of the criminal investigation, a non-invasive and non-contact fingerprint acquisition method is proposed based on digital holography. The off-axis Fresnel digital holography is designed to record the digital hologram. The reconstruction of the complex amplitude from fingerprint is analyzed, and the phase aberration is corrected by the surface fitting based on the least square approach. In the scene of the crime, the fingerprint of suspects is easily left on some smooth surfaces. In the experiments, the CD-ROM disk with fingerprint information is used as the sample. The results show that the amplitude and phase images can be obtained and combined to capture more information of latent fingerprints, which demonstrates digital holography is effective for the acquisition of latent fingerprints and can be applied to the criminal investigation field.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 718-720)
• Pages: 2443-2447
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.718-720.2443
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Yun Xin Wang, Ting Luo, Li Ting Ouyang, Da Yong Wang
• Keywords: Digital Holography, Fingerprint Acquisition, Phase Contrast Imaging

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