Ridge orientation estimation and verification algorithm for fingerprint enhancement

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1426-1438

  Liu, Limin ^a   Dai, Tian Shyr ^b  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Enhancement; Fingerprint; Gabor filter; Orientation estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846011405     PISSN: 0958695X     EISSN: 09486968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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