Fingerprint enhancement using wavelet transform combined with gabor filter

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1391-1406

  Zhang, Weipeng ^a,c   Van Tang, Yuan ^a,b   You, Xinge ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Automatic fingerprint identification; Fingerprint enhancement; Gabor filtering; Wavelet coefficient adjustment; Wavelet decomposition; Wavelet reconstruction

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; QUALITY CONTROL; REFLECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION; FINGERPRINT ENHANCEMENT; GABOR FILTERING; WAVELET COEFFICIENT ADJUSTMENT; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; WAVELET RECONSTRUCTION;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 11244355863     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001404003861     Document Type: Article

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