TY - JOUR AU - Madasu Hanmandlu AU - Neha Mittal AU - Ritu Vijay PY - 2016/12/23 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A Robust Finger Knuckle Print Authentication using Topothesy and fractal dimension JF - Defence Science Journal JA - DSJ VL - 67 IS - 1 SE - Electronics & Communication Systems DO - 10.14429/dsj.1.9003 UR - https://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/dsj/article/view/9003 AB - This paper presents the finger knuckle based biometric authentication system using the approaches like structure entropy, GSHP (Gaussian smoothed High pass), GSOD (Gaussian Smoothed Oriented Directives) and also the well known method for surface roughness measurement called the fractal profiles represented by Topothesy and fractal dimension which describe  not only the roughness but also the affine self similarity. We have also implemented Daisy descriptor for the representation of texture. The results of fractal parameters along with the refined scores are comparable to those of the compcode and impcompcode. ER -