Following Daubert in 1993, forensic evidence based on fingerprints was first challenged in the 1999 case of USA vs. Byron Mitchell, and subsequently, in 20 other cases involving...
Contrary to popular belief, despite decades of research in fingerprints, reliable fingerprint recognition is an open problem. Extracting features out of poor quality prints is t...
Sharat Chikkerur, Venu Govindaraju, Alexander N. C...
The SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) descriptor is a widely used method for matching image features. However, perfect scale invariance can not be achieved in practice becau...
Image matching is a fundamental task of many problems in computer vision. This paper presents a novel local feature descriptor based on the gradient distance and orientation histo...
Determining the position and orientation of a workpiece relative to a manufacturing device is a prerequisite for machining path planning. If the workpiece is freeform and if it co...