Direct gray-scale minutiae detection in fingerprints

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-40

  Maio, Dario ^a   Maltoni, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Directional image; Feature extraction; Fingerprints; Gray scale images; Minutiae

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DIRECTIONAL IMAGE; FINGERPRINTS; GRAY SCALE IMAGES; IMAGE BINARIZATION; MINUTIAE;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030736058     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.566808     Document Type: Article

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