A genetic algorithm for the estimation of ridges in fingerprints

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1134-1139

  Abutaleb, Ahmed S ^a   Kamel, M ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Fingerprint; Genetic algorithm; Image processing

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SCANNING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM; GRAY LEVEL DISTRIBUTION;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 0032671059     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.777095     Document Type: Article

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