Fingerprint segmentation based on improved active contour

Proceedings - 2009 International Conference on Networking and Digital Society, ICNDS 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 44-47

  Bian, Weixin ^a   Xu, Deqin ^a   Zhao, Yi Wei ^b  

^a ANHUI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shandong Water Polytechnic   (China)

Author keywords

Active contour model; Fingerprint; Greedy alogrithm; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ACTIVE CONTOURS; DIRECTIONAL HISTOGRAM; EXTERNAL ENERGY; FINGERPRINT; FINGERPRINT IMAGES; FINGERPRINT SEGMENTATION; GREEDY ALOGRITHM; REGIONAL INFORMATION; SNAKE ALGORITHM; SNAKE ENERGY; SNAKE MODEL; TARGET OBJECT;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; EDGE DETECTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 70350077552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNDS.2009.91     Document Type: Conference Paper

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