Modelling fingerprint ridge orientation using Legendre polynomials

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 342-357

  Ram, Surinder ^a   Bischof, Horst ^a   Birchbauer, Josef ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Siemens IT Solutions and Services   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Fingerprint recognition; Fingerprint ridge orientation model; Legendre polynomials; Singular point detection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC FINGERPRINT VERIFICATION SYSTEMS; COMPACT REPRESENTATION; FINGERPRINT FEATURES; FINGERPRINT MATCHER; FINGERPRINT ORIENTATION; FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION; FINGERPRINT RIDGE ORIENTATION MODEL; FINGERPRINT RIDGES; LEGENDRE POLYNOMIALS; NOVEL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; ORIENTATION DATA; ORIENTATION FIELDS; RIDGE ORIENTATIONS; SINGULAR POINT DETECTION; SINGULAR POINTS;

BIOMETRICS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; CURVE FITTING; DETECTORS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; POLYNOMIALS;

PATTERN MATCHING;

EID: 68949140819     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.04.023     Document Type: Article

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