A modified Gabor filter design method for fingerprint image enhancement

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1805-1817

  Yang, Jianwei ^a   Liu, Lifeng ^a   Jiang, Tianzi ^a   Fan, Yong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Band pass filter; Enhancement; Fingerprints; Low pass filter; Modified Gabor filter; Parameter selection; Traditional Gabor filter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FINGERPRINTING;

PATTERN MATCHING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038330229     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(03)00005-9     Document Type: Article

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