Biometric verification using thermal images of palm-dorsa vein patterns

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 199-213

  Lin, Chih Lung ^a   Fan, Kuo Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Inter to intra personal variation ratio; Multiple multiresolution filters; Positive Boolean function (PBF); Vein pattern verification; Watershed transformation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CAMERAS; DIGITAL FILTERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING;

BIOMETRIC VERIFICATION; MULTIPLE MULTIRESOLUTION FILTER; PALM-DORSA VEIN PATTERN; POSITIVE BOOLEAN FUNCTION; WATERSHED TRANSFORMATION;

PATTERN MATCHING;

EID: 1642392412     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2003.821975     Document Type: Article

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