A novel adaptive approach to fingerprint enhancement filter design

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 849-855

  Tahmasebi, A M ^a   Kasaei, S ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biometrics identification; Directional filtering; Enhancement; Filter design; Ridge distance estimation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PATTERN MATCHING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

FINGERPRINT ENHANCEMENT FILTERS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0036843645     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-5965(02)00085-1     Document Type: Article

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