A hierarchical identification method based on improved hand geometry and regional content feature for low-resolution hand images

Signal Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1447-1460

  Wu, Jie ^a   Qiu, Zhengding ^a   Sun, Dongmei ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Hand geometry; Identification; Low resolution; Regional content feature; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

HAND GEOMETRY; REGIONAL CONTENT FEATURES;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 39749094477     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.12.007     Document Type: Article

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