Fingerprint-quality index using gradient components

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 792-800

  Lee, Sanghoon ^a   Choi, Heeseung ^a   Choi, Kyoungtaek ^a   Kim, Jaihie ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fingerprint quality estimation; Gradient vectors; Orientation estimation; Probability density function (PDF)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

FINGERPRINT IMAGE QUALITY; FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION; FINGERPRINT-QUALITY ESTIMATION; GRADIENT VECTORS; ORIENTATION ESTIMATION; PRE-PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); QUALITY CHECKING ALGORITHM;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 56749097828     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2008.2007245     Document Type: Article

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