A gradient-based combined method for the computation of fingerprints' orientation field

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1169-1177

  Mei, Yuan ^a   Sun, Huaijiang ^a   Xia, Deshen ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Combined method; Consistency; Fingerprint recognition; Normalization; Orientation field

Indexed keywords

COMBINED METHOD; CONSISTENCY; FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION; NORMALIZATION; ORIENTATION FIELD;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 67349086587     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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