• DocumentCode
    1682562
  • Title

    Preprocessing of two-dimensional fingerprint images for fingerprint recognition

  • Author

    Coetzee, L. ; Botha, E.C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Pretoria Univ., South Africa
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    8/30/1991 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    69
  • Lastpage
    73
  • Abstract
    Reliable fingerprint recognition requires extensive preprocessing to transform a greyscale image into a usable binary image from which features can be extracted for use in a classifier. This paper discusses two algorithms for preprocessing fingerprint images. Simulation results are presented
  • Keywords
    pattern recognition; algorithms; fingerprint images; fingerprint recognition; greyscale image; preprocessing; usable binary image; Computational modeling; Feature extraction; Filling; Fingerprint recognition; Fuzzy sets; Image converters; Image matching; Reliability engineering; Windows;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications and Signal Processing, 1991. COMSIG 1991 Proceedings., South African Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Pretoria
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-0040-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/COMSIG.1991.278226
  • Filename
    278226