Title : 
New method to obtain the directional image for fingerprint classification
         
        
            Author : 
Costa, Silvia M Farani ; De Oliveira, Joao Marcelo ; Arantes, Luciano M. ; Fernandez, Francisco Javier Ramirez
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Escola Politecnica, Sao Paulo Univ., Brazil
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This work presents a simpler method to obtain fingerprint classification by means of directional map smoothing developed in C++ programming language through statistical techniques. That strategy allows to extract attributes of an image to increase the quality because it is possible to reduce the noise if compared with the result obtained by other methods exposed in the literature
         
        
            Keywords : 
fingerprint identification; image classification; noise; statistical analysis; C++ programming language; directional image; directional map smoothing; fingerprint classification; noise reduction; statistical techniques; Computer languages; Data analysis; Data mining; Fingerprint recognition; Image analysis; Libraries; Noise reduction; Signal to noise ratio; Skin; Smoothing methods;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 2001 Proceedings of XIV Brazilian Symposium on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Florianopolis
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7695-1330-1
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/SIBGRAPI.2001.963097