The investigation of a relative contrast index model for fingerprint quantification

Forensic Science International

Volumn 204, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 74-79

  Vanderwee, Jana ^a   Porter, Glenn ^a   Renshaw, Adrian ^a   Bell, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b New South Wales Government   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contrast; Fingermark enhancement; Fingerprinting; Optical enhancement; Photography; Relative contrast index

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; FORENSIC SCIENCE; LABORATORY TEST; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE CONTRAST INDEX; RELIABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 78650891885     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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