Verifying an identity claim by fingerprint recognition is a commonplace experience for millions of people in their daily life, e.g. for unlocking a tablet computer or smartphone. The first processing step after fingerprint image acquisition is segmentation, i.e. dividing a fingerprint image into a foreground region which contains the relevant features for the comparison algorithm, and a background region. We propose a novel segmentation method by global three-part decomposition (G3PD). Based on global variational analysis, the G3PD method decomposes a fingerprint image into cartoon, texture and noise parts. After decomposition, the foreground region is obtained from the non-zero coefficients in the texture image using morphological processing. The segmentation performance of the G3PD method is compared to five state-of-the-art methods on a benchmark which comprises manually marked ground truth segmentation for 10560 images. Performance evaluations show that the G3PD method consistently outperforms existing methods in terms of segmentation accuracy.
Filter Design and Performance Evaluation for Fingerprint Image Segmentation
Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, University of Göttingen（哥廷根大学数学随机过程研究所）；Felix-Bernstein-Institute for Mathematical Statistics in the Biosciences, University of Göttingen（哥廷根大学生物科学数学统计费利克斯·伯恩斯坦研究所）
Recursive Class Connectivity Classification (R3C) Applied to Binary Image Segmentation for Improved Infant Fingerprint Enhancement
Infant.ID Ltda（Infant.ID公司）；Graduate Program in Production and Systems Engineering (PPGEPS), Federal University of Technology-Paran (UTFPR)（生产与系统工程硕士项目，联邦技术大学-巴拉那（UTFPR））
Singular points detection with semantic segmentation networks
Molecular and Neuroimaging Engineering Research Center of MOE, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University（教育部分子与神经影像工程研究中心，西安电子科技大学生命科学技术学院）
Comparative analysis of segmentation and generative models for fingerprint retrieval task
Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani – KK Birla Goa Campus（贝拉理工学院皮拉尼分校–KK·贝拉果阿校区）；Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune（印度科学教育与研究学院浦那分校）；Vellore Institute of Technology, Bhopal（韦洛尔理工学院博帕尔分校）
New region force for variational models in image segmentation and high dimensional data clustering
University of California at Davis（加州大学戴维斯分校）；Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）；University of Bergen（卑尔根大学）；Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）
A Unified Variational Framework for Deep Weakly Supervised Image Segmentation
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Hetao Institute of Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences（河套数学与交叉科学研究所）；Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院）；Xiangtan University（湘潭大学）；Norwegian Research Center（挪威研究中心）
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Meet Variational Shape Compactness Priors for Image Segmentation
Hong Kong Baptist University（香港浸会大学）；Hong Kong Center for Cerebro-Cardiovascular Health Engineering（香港脑心健康工程中心）；Zhejiang Normal University（浙江师范大学）；Norwegian Research Center（挪威研究中心）
MRI-to-CT Synthesis With Cranial Suture Segmentations Using A Variational Autoencoder Framework
Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA（Sheikh Zayed儿童外科创新研究所，Children’s National医院，华盛顿特区，美国）；CIBORG Lab, Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA（CIBORG实验室，放射科，Children’s Hospital Los Angeles，洛杉矶，加利福尼亚州，美国）；Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA（放射科和生物医学工程系，美国南加州大学，洛杉矶，加利福尼亚州，美国）；School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA（医学与健康科学学院，乔治华盛顿大学，华盛顿特区，美国）
Object Segmentation Tracking from Generic Video Cues
Data and Web Science Group, University of Mannheim（曼海姆大学数据与网络科学组）；Fraunhofer ITWM, Competence Center HPC（弗劳恩霍夫工业数学研究所高性能计算能力中心）；Fraunhofer Center Machine Learning（弗劳恩霍夫机器学习中心）；Mathematical Image Analysis Group, Saarland University（萨尔大学数学图像分析组）
Variational multichannel multiclass segmentation using unsupervised lifting with CNNs
University of Innsbruck（因斯布鲁克大学）；VASCage GmbH（VASCage有限责任公司）；MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology（英国医学研究委员会分子生物学实验室）；Medical University of Innsbruck（因斯布鲁克医科大学）
Graph clustering, variational image segmentation methods and Hough transform scale detection for object measurement in images
Universitá degli studi di Genova（热那亚大学）；The University of Nottingham（诺丁汉大学）；University of Cambridge（剑桥大学）；Zoological Society of London（伦敦动物学会）；NAVAIR（美国海军航空系统司令部）
Segmentation of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Images Using Variational Methods and Empirical Wavelets
Northwestern University（西北大学）；University of Colorado Boulder（科罗拉多大学博尔德分校）；University of San Francisco（旧金山大学）；Imperial College London（帝国理工学院）；Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité（巴黎第七大学（索邦巴黎大学））；University of California, Los Angeles（加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校）；San Diego State University（圣地亚哥州立大学）
Lifting-based variational multiclass segmentation algorithm: design, convergence analysis, and implementation with applications in medical imaging
University of Innsbruck（因斯布鲁克大学）；VASCage-Research Centre on Vascular Ageing and Stroke（VASCage血管老化与中风研究中心）；MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology（英国医学研究委员会分子生物学实验室）；Medical University of Innsbruck（因斯布鲁克医科大学）
Variational Image Segmentation Model Coupled with Image Restoration Achievements
Department of Plant Sciences（植物科学系）；Department of Applied Mathematics（应用数学系）；Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK（理论物理，剑桥大学，剑桥，英国）
Variational Inference for Bird's Eye View Segmentation in Autonomous Driving
School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University（北京交通大学电子信息工程学院）；School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University（东南大学信息科学与工程学院）
Unleashing Vision Foundation Models for Coronary Artery Segmentation: Parallel ViT-CNN Encoding and Variational Fusion
National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Biodiagnosis \& Biotherapy, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710004, China Institute of Medical Artificial Intelligence, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710004, China Viadrina European University, Frankfurt (Oder), 15230, Germany
