A Tree System Approach for Fingerprint Pattern Recognition
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Special memorial issue for Professor King-Sun Fu
Digital image processing (2nd ed.)
Digital image processing (2nd ed.)
Line thinning by line following
Pattern Recognition Letters
An approach to fingerprint filter design
Pattern Recognition
The Design and Use of Steerable Filters
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Steerable-scalable kernels for edge detection and junction analysis
Image and Vision Computing - Special issue: 2nd European Conference on Computer Vision
Fingerprint Image Enhancement: Algorithm and Performance Evaluation
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Direct Gray-Scale Minutiae Detection In Fingerprints
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
WACV '96 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '96)
Fingerprint Image Enhancement Using Filtering Techniques
ICPR '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Volume 3
Fingerprint enhancement by shape adaptation of scale-space operators with automatic scale selection
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Approximate orientation steerability based on angular Gaussians
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
A chaincode based scheme for fingerprint feature extraction
Pattern Recognition Letters
Technical Communication: A fast fingerprint image enhancement algorithm using a parabolic mask
Computers and Electrical Engineering
A new approach to finger print matching technique
AMCOS'05 Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
Robust Fingerprint Matching Using Spiral Partitioning Scheme
ICB '09 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Biometrics
A novel evolutionary approach to image enhancement filter design: method and applications
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Feature extraction using a chaincoded contour representation of fingerprint images
AVBPA'03 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Audio- and video-based biometric person authentication
A fast fingerprint matching algorithm using Parzen density estimation
ICISC'02 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Information security and cryptology
Improving minutiae detection in fingerprints using multiresolution contrast enhancement
ICIAR'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition - Volume Part II
Evolutionary singularity filter bank optimization for fingerprint image enhancement
EuroGP'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computing
Adaptive boosted spectral filtering for progressive fingerprint enhancement
Pattern Recognition
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Extracting minutiae from fingerprint images is one of the most important steps in automatic fingerprint identification and classification. Minutiae are local discontinuities in the fingerprint pattern, mainly terminations and bifurcations. Most of the minutiae detection methods are based on image binarization while some others extract the minutiae directly from gray-scale images. In this work we compare these two approaches and propose two different methods for fingerprint ridge image enhancement. The first one is carried out using local histogram equalization, Wiener filtering, and image binarization. The second method uses a unique anisotropic filter for direct gray-scale enhancement. The results achieved are compared with those obtained through some other methods. Both methods show some improvement in the minutiae detection process in terms of time required and efficiency.