Design and implementation of Log-Gabor filter in fingerprint image enhancement

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 301-308

  Wang, Wei ^a   Li, Jianwei ^a   Huang, Feifei ^a   Feng, Hailiang ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Enhancement; Fingerprint; Identification; Log Gabor filter; Traditional Gabor filter

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

FINGERPRINTS; LOG-GABOR FILTER; TRADITIONAL GABOR FILTERS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 37049002871     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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