Fingerprint classification based on extraction and analysis of singularities and pseudo ridges

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2233-2243

  Zhang, Qinzhi ^a   Yan, Hong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Fingerprint classification; Pseudo ridge; Singular point detection

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CURVE FITTING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY;

BIOMETRICS; FINGERPRINT CLASSIFICATION; PSEUDO RIDGE; SINGULAR POINT DETECTION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 12344322746     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2003.12.020     Document Type: Article

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