Fusion of matching algorithms for human identification using dental X-ray radiographs

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 223-233

  Nomir, Omaima ^a,b   Abdel Mottaleb, Mohamed ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Antemortem (AM) radiographs; Biometrics; Dental images; Force field; Forensic radiology; Fourier descriptors; Fusion; Human identification; Image segmentation; Postmortem (PM) radiographs

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIOGRAPHY; VECTORS;

ANTEMORTEM (AM) RADIOGRAPHS; DENTAL IMAGES; FORCE FIELD; FORENSIC RADIOLOGY; FOURIER DESCRIPTORS; HUMAN IDENTIFICATION; POSTMORTEM (PM) RADIOGRAPHS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 44049088552     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2008.919343     Document Type: Article

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