• DocumentCode
    3253956
  • Title

    Compression of grey-scale fingerprint images

  • Author

    Hopper, Tom ; Preston, Fred

  • Author_Institution
    Federal Bur. of Investigation, Washington, DC, USA
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    24-27 March 1992
  • Firstpage
    309
  • Lastpage
    318
  • Abstract
    Investigates a number of techniques developed for fingerprint identification. The test implementations include: ISO/CCITT JPEG developed cosine transform; local cosine transform; best basis-adaptive wavelet transform plus uniform quantisation; wavelet vector quantisation; and wavelet scaler quantisation. All of the above algorithms are viewed from a multifrequency or subband decomposition perspective. The results of ad hoc tests are summarised.<>
  • Keywords
    discrete cosine transforms; image processing; vector quantisation; wavelet transforms; CCITT; ISO; JPEG; VQ; best basis-adaptive wavelet transform; cosine transform; fingerprint identification; grey-scale fingerprint images; image compression; local cosine transform; multifrequency decomposition; subband decomposition; uniform quantisation; wavelet scaler quantisation; wavelet vector quantisation; Compression algorithms; Discrete wavelet transforms; Filters; Fingerprint recognition; Image coding; Image matching; Law enforcement; NIST; Vector quantization; Wavelet transforms;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Data Compression Conference, 1992. DCC '92.
  • Conference_Location
    Snowbird, UT, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-2717-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/DCC.1992.227450
  • Filename
    227450