A review of fingerprint image enhancement methods

International Journal of Image and Graphics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 401-424

  Ailisto, Heikki ^a   Lindholm, Mikko ^a   Tikkanen, Pauli ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biometrics; enhancement; feature extraction; filtering; fingerprint; image processing

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FILTRATION; IMAGE PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION AND MATCHING; FINGERPRINT; FINGERPRINT IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; FINGERPRINT IMAGES; FINGERPRINT VERIFICATION; RIDGE ORIENTATIONS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 2442498011     PISSN: 02194678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219467803001081     Document Type: Article

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