[ספר][B] Handbook of fingerprint recognition

D Maltoni, D Maio, AK Jain, S Prabhakar - 2009‏ - Springer
Biometric recognition, or simply biometrics, refers to the use of distinctive anatomical and/or
behavioral characteristics or identifiers (eg, fingerprints, face, iris, voice, and hand geometry) …

Detection of blood vessels in retinal images using two-dimensional matched filters

S Chaudhuri, S Chatterjee, N Katz… - … on medical imaging, 1989‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blood vessels usually have poor local contrast, and the application of existing edge
detection algorithms yield results which are not satisfactory. An operator for feature …

Fingerprint image enhancement: algorithm and performance evaluation

L Hong, Y Wan, A Jain - IEEE transactions on pattern analysis …, 1998‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to ensure that the performance of an automatic fingerprint identification/verification
system will be robust with respect to the quality of input fingerprint images, it is essential to …

[ספר][B] Advances in fingerprint technology

AK Datta, HC Lee, R Ramotowski, RE Gaensslen - 2001‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Fingerprints constitute one of the most important categories of physical evidence, and it is
among the few that can be truly individualized. During the last two decades, many new and …

On-line fingerprint verification

A Jain, L Hong, R Bolle - IEEE transactions on pattern analysis …, 1997‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fingerprint verification is one of the most reliable personal identification methods. However,
manual fingerprint verification is incapable of meeting today's increasing performance …

An identity-authentication system using fingerprints

AK Jain, L Hong, S Pankanti, R Bolle - Proceedings of the IEEE, 1997‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fingerprint verification is an important biometric technique for personal identification. We
describe the design and implementation of a prototype automatic identity-authentication …

Symmetric phase-only matched filtering of Fourier-Mellin transforms for image registration and recognition

Q Chen, M Defrise, F Deconinck - IEEE Transactions on pattern …, 1994‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Presents a new method to match a 2D image to a translated, rotated and scaled reference
image. The approach consists of two steps: the calculation of a Fourier-Mellin invariant (FMI) …

Direct gray-scale minutiae detection in fingerprints

D Maio, D Maltoni - IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and …, 1997‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most automatic systems for fingerprint comparison are based on minutiae matching.
Minutiae are essentially terminations and bifurcations of the ridge lines that constitute a …

Adaptive flow orientation-based feature extraction in fingerprint images

NK Ratha, S Chen, AK Jain - Pattern recognition, 1995‏ - Elsevier
A reliable method for extracting structural features from fingerprint images is presented.
Viewing fingerprint images as a textured image, an orientation flow field is computed. The …

Systematic methods for the computation of the directional fields and singular points of fingerprints

AM Bazen, SH Gerez - IEEE transactions on pattern analysis …, 2002‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The first subject of the paper is the estimation of a high resolution directional field of
fingerprints. Traditional methods are discussed and a method, based on principal …