@inproceedings{ae7e51d2db9849b6ad90db46dc915e68,
title = "Fingerprint minutiae: A constructive definition",
abstract = "The flow pattern of ridges in a fingerprint is unique to the person in that no two people with the same fingerprints have yet been found. Fingerprints have been in use in forensic applications for many years and, more recently, in computer-automated identification and authentication. For automated fingerprint image matching, a machine representation of a fingerprint image is often a set of minutiae in the print; a minimal, but fundamental, representation is just a set of ridge endings and bifurcations. Oddly, however, after all the years of using minutiae, a precise definition of minutiae has never been formulated. We provide a formal definition of a minutia based on the gray scale image. This definition is constructive, in that, given a minutia image, the minutia location and orientation can be uniquely determined.",
author = "Bolle, \{Ruud M.\} and Senior, \{Andrew W.\} and Ratha, \{Nalini K.\} and Sharath Pankanti",
year = "2002",
doi = "10.1007/3-540-47917-1\_7",
language = "English",
isbn = "3540437231",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "58--66",
editor = "Massimo Tistarelli and Josef Bigun and Jain, \{Anil K.\}",
booktitle = "Biometric Authentication - International ECCV 2002 Workshop, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
note = "International Workshop on Biometric Authentication, ECCV 2002 ; Conference date: 01-06-2002 Through 01-06-2002",
}