A nonlinear orientation model for global description of fingerprints

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1221-1231

  Vizcaya, Pedro R ^a   Gerhardt, Lester A ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fingerprint analysis; Fingerprint models; Identity verification; Orientation field; Ridge orientation; Singular points

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

FINGERPRINTS; IDENTITY VERIFICATION; NONLINEAR ORIENTATION MODEL; RIDGE ORIENTATION; SINGULAR POINTS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030193476     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(95)00154-9     Document Type: Article

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