Novel approach to automated fingerprint recognition

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 160-166

  Wahab, A ^a   Chin, S H ^a   Tan, E C ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Fingerprint recognition; Image processing; Structural matching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

AUTOMATED FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION; IMAGE PREPROCESSING; STRUCTURAL MATCHING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0032091411     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:19981809     Document Type: Article

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