@techreport{TR-IC-04-05,
  number = {IC-04-05},
  author = {Marcelo de Almeida Oliveira and Neucimar Jerônimo Leite},
  title = {Reconnection of fingerprint ridges based on morphological 
           operators and multiscale directional information},
  month = {June},
  year = {2004}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 14 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
       In this paper, we introduce a multiscale operator which,
       together with some morphological tools, can be used to
       reconnect broken components of an image. This operator extracts
       the orientation field from the image components and can be
       applied to both binary and gray-scale pictures. Although we
       illustrate its application in the fingerprint domain, the
       approach described here can be easily extended to images whose
       componentes exhibit well-defined directional information.
  }
}