Finger Character Recognition Using 3-Dimensional Template Matching

IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1444-1454

  Higashiyama, Kazuhiro ^a   Ono, Satoshi ^a   Wang, Yu ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 dimensional scanner; finger character; hill climbing; template matching; voxel

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649897504     PISSN: 03854221     EISSN: 13488155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejeiss.125.1444     Document Type: Article

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