The wavelet/scalar quantization compression standard for digital fingerprint images

Author

Bradley, Jonathan N. ; Brislawn, Christopher M.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1994

fDate

30 May-2 Jun 1994

Firstpage

205

Abstract

A new digital image compression standard has been adopted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation for use on digitized gray-scale fingerprint images. The algorithm is based on adaptive uniform scalar quantization of a discrete wavelet transform image decomposition and is referred to as the wavelet/scalar quantization standard. The standard produces archival quality images at compression ratios of around 20:1 and will allow the FBI to replace their current database of paper fingerprint cards with digital imagery

Keywords

data compression; fingerprint identification; image coding; quantisation (signal); standards; wavelet transforms; FBI; adaptive uniform scalar quantization; archival quality images; digital fingerprint images; digitized gray-scale fingerprint images; discrete wavelet transform; image compression standard; wavelet transform image decomposition; wavelet/scalar quantization compression standard; Decoding; Digital images; Discrete wavelet transforms; Fingerprint recognition; Gray-scale; Image coding; Image databases; Image matching; Laboratories; Quantization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1994. ISCAS '94., 1994 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1915-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1994.409142

Filename

409142