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SIGPRO
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Adaptive bilateral filtering of image signals using local phase characteristics
This paper presents a novel perceptually based method for noise reduction of image signals characterized by low signal to noise ratios. The proposed method exploits the local phas...
Alexander Wong
AVBPA
2003
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Feature Extraction Using a Chaincoded Contour Representation of Fingerprint Images
A feature extraction method using the chaincode representation of fingerprint ridge contours is presented for use by Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems. The representa...
Venu Govindaraju, Zhixin Shi, John Schneider
PR
2007
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13 years 9 months ago
Fingerprint enhancement using STFT analysis
Contrary to popular belief, despite decades of research in fingerprints, reliable fingerprint recognition is still an open problem. Extracting features out of poor quality print...
Sharat Chikkerur, Alexander N. Cartwright, Venu Go...
ICIP
2006
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Generalized Histogram Equalization Based on Local Characteristics
From time to time, state-of-the-art contrast enhancement algorithms face undesired drawbacks, like loss of tiny details, enhancement of image noise, occasional overenhancement, an...
Tzu-Cheng Jen, Sheng-Jyh Wang
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Curvature and Singularity Driven Diffusion for Oriented Pattern Enhancement with Singular Points
Oriented patterns, e.g. fingerprints, consist of smoothly varying flow-like patterns, together with important singular points (i.e. cores and deltas) where the orientation change...
Qijun Zhao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University),...