Improving verification accuracy by synthesis of locally enhanced biometric images and deformable model

Signal Processing

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2746-2764

  Singh, Richa ^a   Vatsa, Mayank ^a   Noore, Afzel ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformation; Face recognition; Iris recognition; Phase congruency; Quality enhancement; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

HOMOGENOUS FACE; IRIS RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 34447305510     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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