A robust technique for latent fingerprint image segmentation and enhancement

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1492-1495

  Karimi Ashtiani, Shahryar ^a   Jay Kuo, C C ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Fingerprint image; Gabor filtering; Image enhancement; Image segmentation; Latent image

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; FINGERPRINT IMAGE; GABOR FILTERING; LATENT FINGERPRINT; LATENT IMAGE; LOCAL GRADIENTS; LOCAL REGION; ORIENTATION ESTIMATION; PATTERN ENHANCEMENTS; ROBUST ESTIMATE; ROBUST TECHNIQUE; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTORESISTS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 69949136581     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2008.4712049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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