Scattering removal for finger-vein image restoration

Sensors

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 3627-3640

  Yang, Jinfeng ^a   Zhang, Ben ^a   Shi, Yihua ^a  

^a CIVIL AVIATION UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Finger vein; Image restoration; Optical model; Scattering removal

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FINGER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; VEIN;

ALGORITHMS; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ROC CURVE; VEINS;

EID: 84858971233     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120303627     Document Type: Article

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