@inproceedings{d5d1356311c44d04967939d45d2293e3,
title = "Multiscale Approach for Thinning Ridges of Fingerprint",
abstract = "This paper presents a robust multiscale method to create thinned ridge map of fingerprint for automatic recognition by employing an elaborately designed wavelet function. Properties of the new wavelet function are substantially investigated. Some desirable characteristics of the local minimum produced by wavelet transform show that they are suitable to describe skeleton of ribbon-shape objects. A multiscale thinning algorithm based on the modulus minima of wavelet transform is proposed. The proposed algorithm is able to improve the skeleton representation of the ridge of fingerprint without side-effects and limitations of previous methods. Thinned ridge map helps to facilitate minutiae extraction for matching. Experiments validated effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method.",
author = "Xinge You and Bin Fang and Tang, {Yuan Yan} and Jian Huang",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005. Funding Information: This research was partially supported by a grant (60403011 and 10371033) from National Natural Science Foundation of China and a grant (2003ABA012) from Hubei Provincial Science &Technology Department, and a grant (20045006071-17) from Wuhan government, China. This research was also supported by the grants (RGC and FRG) from Hong Kong Baptist University.; 2nd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2005 ; Conference date: 07-06-2005 Through 09-06-2005",
year = "2005",
month = may,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1007/11492542_62",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783540261544",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "505--512",
editor = "Marques, {Jorge S.} and Blanca, {Nicol{\'a}s P{\'e}rez de la} and Pedro Pina",
booktitle = "Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis",
address = "Germany",
edition = "1st",
url = "https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b136825",
}