Fingerprint evidence plays an important role in a criminal investigation for the identification of individuals. Although various techniques have been proposed for fingerprint classification and feature extraction, automated fingerprint identification of fingerprints is still in its earliest stage. The performance of traditional \textit{Automatic Fingerprint Identification System} (AFIS) depends on the presence of valid minutiae points and still requires human expert assistance in feature extraction and identification stages. Based on this motivation, we propose a Fingerprint Identification approach based on Generative adversarial network and One-shot learning techniques (FIGO). Our solution contains two components: fingerprint enhancement tier and fingerprint identification tier. First, we propose a Pix2Pix model to transform low-quality fingerprint images to a higher level of fingerprint images pixel by pixel directly in the fingerprint enhancement tier. With the proposed enhancement algorithm, the fingerprint identification model's performance is significantly improved. Furthermore, we develop another existing solution based on Gabor filters as a benchmark to compare with the proposed model by observing the fingerprint device's recognition accuracy. Experimental results show that our proposed Pix2pix model has better support than the baseline approach for fingerprint identification. Second, we construct a fully automated fingerprint feature extraction model using a one-shot learning approach to differentiate each fingerprint from the others in the fingerprint identification process. Two twin convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with shared weights and parameters are used to obtain the feature vectors in this process. Using the proposed method, we demonstrate that it is possible to learn necessary information from only one training sample with high accuracy.

The Hadamard Layer, a simple and computationally efficient way to improve results in semantic segmentation tasks, is presented. This layer has no free parameters that require to be trained. Therefore it does not increase the number of model parameters, and the extra computational cost is marginal. Experimental results show that the new Hadamard layer substantially improves the performance of the investigated models (variants of the Pix2Pix model). The performance's improvement can be explained by the Hadamard layer forcing the network to produce an internal encoding of the classes so that all bins are active. Therefore, the network computation is more distributed. In a sort that the Hadamard layer requires that to change the predicted class, it is necessary to modify $2^{k-1}$ bins, assuming $k$ bins in the encoding. A specific loss function allows a stable and fast training convergence.

There are a lot of different deep learning models out there that can be used for learning colorization mapping. In this project, I am going to use Pix2Pix to solve the problem. We will use a U-Net and a PatchGAN as the generator and the discriminator respectively as proposed in the Pix2Pix paper. The Pix2Pix model is a GAN, or specifically, it is a type of conditional GAN (cGAN). Just like a GAN, Pix2Pix trains the generator and the discriminator simultaneously. But instead of taking samples from a latent space, the Pix2Pix generator takes images as inputs.

This paper introduces a conditional generative adversarial network to redesign a street-level image of urban scenes by generating 1) an urban intervention policy, 2) an attention map that localises where intervention is needed, 3) a high-resolution street-level image (1024 X 1024 or 1536 X1536) after implementing the intervention. We also introduce a new dataset that comprises aligned street-level images of before and after urban interventions from real-life scenarios that make this research possible. The introduced method has been trained on different ranges of urban interventions applied to realistic images. The trained model shows strong performance in re-modelling cities, outperforming existing methods that apply image-to-image translation in other domains that is computed in a single GPU. This research opens the door for machine intelligence to play a role in re-thinking and re-designing the different attributes of cities based on adversarial learning, going beyond the mainstream of facial landmarks manipulation or image synthesis from semantic segmentation.

The Pix2Pix Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN, is an approach to training a deep convolutional neural network for image-to-image translation tasks. The careful configuration of architecture as a type of image-conditional GAN allows for both the generation of large images compared to prior GAN models (e.g. In this tutorial, you will discover how to develop a Pix2Pix generative adversarial network for image-to-image translation. Discover how to develop DCGANs, conditional GANs, Pix2Pix, CycleGANs, and more with Keras in my new GANs book, with 29 step-by-step tutorials and full source code. How to Develop a Pix2Pix Generative Adversarial Network for Image-to-Image Translation Photo by European Southern Observatory, some rights reserved. Pix2Pix is a Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN, model designed for general purpose image-to-image translation. The approach was presented by Phillip Isola, et al. in their 2016 paper titled "Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Networks" and presented at CVPR in 2017. The GAN architecture is comprised of a generator model for outputting new plausible synthetic images, and a discriminator model that classifies images as real (from the dataset) or fake (generated). The discriminator model is updated directly, whereas the generator model is updated via the discriminator model.