A comparative study of fingerprint image-quality estimation methods

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 734-743

  Alonso Fernandez, Fernando ^a,b   Fierrez, Julian ^a,b   Qrtega Garcia, Javier ^a,b   Gonzalez Rodriguez, Joaquin ^a,b   Fronthaler, Hartwig ^c   Kollreider, Klaus ^c   Bigun, Josef ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (Spain)

^b Food Science Departmental Section   (Spain)

^c HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Fingerprint recognition; Minutia; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION SYSTEM; MINUTIA; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; VERIFICATION PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE QUALITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 36348952685     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2007.908228     Document Type: Article

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