A review of ridge counting in dermatoglyphics

Wei Chung Lin; Richard C. Dubes

doi:10.1016/0031-3203(83)90002-X

A review of ridge counting in dermatoglyphics

Wei Chung Lin, Richard C. Dubes^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper reviews the problem of counting ridges in a digitized fingerprint and examines an interactive software system that relieves the tedium of visual inspection and standardizes the counting procedure. The software system includes digitizer, preprocessor and counter subsystems. The preprocessor smoothes and thresholds the image. The counter defines an appropriate window around the line between two user-selected points, eliminates artifacts and counts runs of zero pixels. A preliminary experiment with a counter based on the Hough transform is also briefly discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-8
Number of pages	8
Journal	Pattern Recognition
Volume	16
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-3203(83)90002-X
State	Published - 1983

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*Research supported by NSF Grant ECS-8007106 tAddress all correspondence to Dr Dubes

Keywords

Dermatoglyphics
Hough transform
Image processing
Pattern recognition
Ridge counting

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Signal Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence

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