Cost-effective fingerprint recognition system for use with low-quality prints and damaged fingertips

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 255-270

  Willis, Andrew John ^a,b   Myers, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b General Electric Company Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DAMAGED FINGERTIPS; FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION SYSTEM; IMAGE SMOOTHING; LOW QUALITY PRINTS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034818186     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(00)00003-0     Document Type: Article

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