Evolved transforms beat the FBI wavelet for improved fingerprint compression and reconstruction

This paper describes the evolution of new wavelet and scaling numbers for optimized transforms that consistently outperform the 9/7 discrete wavelet transform (DWT) for fingerprint compression and reconstruction.

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