An effective method for extracting singular points in fingerprint images

AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 671-676

  Wang, Lin ^a   Dai, Mo ^b  

^a GUIZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX MONTAIGNE   (France)

Author keywords

A pair of core delta; Core; Delta; Fingerprint image; Gaussian Hermite moments

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

CORE; DELTA; FINGERPRINT IMAGE; GAUSSIAN-HERMITE MOMENTS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33748292961     PISSN: 14348411     EISSN: 16180399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeue.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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