Enhanced gradient-based algorithm for the estimation of fingerprint orientation fields

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 823-833

  Wang, Yi ^a   Hu, Jiankun ^a   Han, Fengling ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automatic fingerprint recognition; Biometric authentication; Gradient based algorithm; Orientation estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION; BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION; GRADIENT-BASED METHODS; ORIENTATION ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33847297478     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2006.06.082     Document Type: Article

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