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Fingerprints captured for the same person using various sensor technologies have various types of noises and artifacts. This problem motivated us to develop an algorithm that can enhance fingerprints captured using different types of sensors and touch technologies. Inspired by the success of deep learning in various computer vision tasks, we formulate this problem as an image-to-image transformation designed using a deep encoder\u2013decoder model. It is trained using two learning frameworks, i.e., conventional learning and adversarial learning based on a conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN) framework. Since different types of edges form the ridge patterns in fingerprints, we employed edge loss to train the model for effective fingerprint enhancement. The designed method was evaluated on fingerprints from two benchmark cross-sensor fingerprint datasets, i.e., MOLF and FingerPass. To assess the quality of enhanced fingerprints, we employed two standard metrics commonly used: NBIS Fingerprint Image Quality (NFIQ) and Structural Similarity Index Metric (SSIM). In addition, we proposed a metric named Fingerprint Quality Enhancement Index (FQEI) for comprehensive evaluation of fingerprint enhancement algorithms. Effective fingerprint quality enhancement results were achieved regardless of the sensor type used, where this issue was not investigated in the related literature before. The results indicate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22186973","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,16]],"date-time":"2022-09-16T01:35:10Z","timestamp":1663292110000},"page":"6973","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Cross-Sensor Fingerprint Enhancement Using Adversarial Learning and Edge Loss"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7476-9862","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ashwaq","family":"Alotaibi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, CCIS, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5847-8539","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Muhammad","family":"Hussain","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, CCIS, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8000-5105","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hatim","family":"AboAlSamh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, CCIS, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6871-6633","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wadood","family":"Abdul","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"George","family":"Bebis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Maltoni, D., Maio, D., Jain, A.K., and Prabhakar, S. 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