Fingerprint image-quality estimation and its application to multialgorithm verification

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 331-338

  Fronthaler, Hartwig ^a   Kollreider, Klaus ^a   Bigun, Josef ^a   Fierrez, Julian ^b   Alonso Fernandez, Fernando ^b   Ortega Garcia, Javier ^b   Gonzalez Rodriguez, Joaquin ^b  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive fusion; Bayesian statistics; Cascaded fusion; Fingerprint; Monomodal fusion; Quality assessment; Structure tensor; Symmetry features; Training

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VERIFICATION;

ADAPTIVE FUSION; BAYESIAN STATISTICS; CASCADED FUSION; FINGERPRINTS; MONOMODAL FUSION; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURE TENSORS; SYMMETRY FEATURES;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 44049092040     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2008.920725     Document Type: Article

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