Fingerprint Enhancement in the Singular Point Area

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 16-19

  Wang, Sen ^a,b   Wang, Yangsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhancement; Filter; Fingerprint; Singular point

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIFFUSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SENSORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SWITCHING;

FINGERPRINT; SINGULAR POINT;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0346685941     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2003.819351     Document Type: Article

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