Local features for enhancement and minutiae extraction in fingerprints

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 354-363

  Fronthaler, Hartwig ^a   Kollreider, Klaus ^a   Bigun, Josef ^a  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Differential scale space; Fidelity; Fingerprint restoration; Image enhancement; Image pyramid; Linear symmetry; Minutiae extraction; Orientation tensor; Parabolic symmetry; Symmetry features

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PATTERN MATCHING;

DIFFERENTIAL SCALE SPACE; IMAGE PYRAMID; MINUTIAE EXTRACTION; PARABOLIC SYMMETRY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DERMATOGLYPHICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; DERMATOGLYPHICS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 40749102899     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.916155     Document Type: Article

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