Fingerprint analysis and singular point detection

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1937-1945

  Huang, Ching Yu ^b   Liu, Li min ^a   Hung, D C Douglas ^c  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RUTGERS SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University Heights   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional image; Fault line; Fingerprint; Fingerprint classification; Singular points

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PATTERN MATCHING;

DIRECTIONAL IMAGES; FAULT LINES; FINGERPRINT ANALYSIS; FINGERPRINT CLASSIFICATION; SINGULAR POINT DETECTION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548674934     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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