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Article: Singapore, Malaysian Inventors Develop Fingerprint Identification System
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 22 -- Tao Xia, Bao Liu, Lixin Shen and Seng Luan Lee, all from Singapore, and Jo Yew Tham of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, have developed a method and a system for performing automated biological identification.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to the "system including a preprocessing module with a histogram transform for locally and globally enhancing biological data such as fingerprints; an enhancement module with a fast smoothing and enhancement function; a feature extraction module with a fingerprint oriented thinning function; a matching module with a resolution-enhanced Hough transform function for fingerprint registration and ...