A watershed algorithmic approach for gray-scale skeletonization in thermal vein pattern biometrics

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4456 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 935-942

  Wang, Lingyu ^a   Leedham, Graham ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b The University of New South Wales Singapore   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BINARY CODES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

BINARIZATION STAGE; SKELETONIZATION ALGORITHMS; SKELETONIZATION STAGES; VEIN PATTERN BIOMETRICS;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 38349001532     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74377-4_98     Document Type: Conference Paper

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