A fast fingerprint image enhancement algorithm using a parabolic mask

Computers and Electrical Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 250-256

  Çavuşoǧlu, Abdullah ^a   Görgünoǧlu, Salih ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Directional filter; Fingerprint binarization; Fingerprint enhancement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECOGNITION;

DIRECTIONAL FILTER; FINGERPRINT BINARIZATION; FINGERPRINT ENHANCEMENT; FINGERPRINT IMAGES; FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 40849098142     PISSN: 00457906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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