Salil Prabhakar

6.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Salil Prabhakar is a scholar working on Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Salil Prabhakar has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Signal Processing, 7 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 5 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Salil Prabhakar's work include Biometric Identification and Security (12 papers), User Authentication and Security Systems (5 papers) and Forensic and Genetic Research (3 papers). Salil Prabhakar is often cited by papers focused on Biometric Identification and Security (12 papers), User Authentication and Security Systems (5 papers) and Forensic and Genetic Research (3 papers). Salil Prabhakar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Salil Prabhakar's co-authors include Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio, Anil K. Jain, Anil Jain, Sharath Pankanti, Shaoyun Chen, George Bebis, Ali Erol, Kuang-Chih Lee and Josef Kittler and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and Pattern Recognition Letters.

In The Last Decade

Salil Prabhakar

15 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2009 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition
    2003 1.9k citations Davide Maltoni, Salil Prabhakar et al. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) profile →
  2. Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition
    2009 1.4k citations Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio et al. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Salil Prabhakar United States 12 3.5k 2.4k 1.6k 965 461 15 4.1k
Raffaele Cappelli Italy 24 3.3k 0.9× 2.3k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 939 1.0× 386 0.8× 53 3.5k
S. Prabhakar United States 12 5.1k 1.5× 3.6k 1.5× 3.1k 1.9× 784 0.8× 457 1.0× 17 6.4k
James L. Wayman United States 13 1.6k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 799 0.5× 374 0.4× 145 0.3× 30 2.0k
Javier Ortega-García Spain 40 3.7k 1.1× 3.6k 1.5× 1.8k 1.1× 478 0.5× 298 0.6× 195 6.1k
Javier Galbally Spain 30 2.3k 0.7× 2.0k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 316 0.3× 185 0.4× 72 3.1k
Adams Wai‐Kin Kong Singapore 20 1.6k 0.5× 1.5k 0.6× 534 0.3× 131 0.1× 266 0.6× 88 2.3k
Raghavendra Ramachandra Norway 34 2.6k 0.8× 3.1k 1.3× 850 0.5× 207 0.2× 295 0.6× 266 4.3k
Christian Rathgeb Germany 29 2.7k 0.8× 2.4k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 183 0.2× 112 0.2× 180 3.3k
Joaquín González-Rodríguez Spain 31 2.0k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 508 0.3× 180 0.2× 192 0.4× 120 3.1k
Lawrence O’Gorman United States 25 791 0.2× 2.0k 0.8× 724 0.5× 146 0.2× 48 0.1× 70 2.9k

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All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Southern, Šárka O., Kevin Montgomery, Bernhard H. Weigl, et al.. (2011). Sensing Technologies for Global Health, Military Medicine, Disaster Response, and Environmental Monitoring II; and Biometric Technology for Human Identification IX. 8029. 7 indexed citations
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Prabhakar, Salil, et al.. (2011). Biometric recognition: Sensor characteristics and image quality. IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine. 14(3). 10–16. 22 indexed citations
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Dass, Sarat C., et al.. (2009). Individuality of Fingerprints. 741–751. 1 indexed citations
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Bebis, George, et al.. (2009). Minutiae-based template synthesis and matching for fingerprint authentication. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 113(9). 979–992. 34 indexed citations
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Maltoni, Davide, Dario Maio, Anil K. Jain, & Salil Prabhakar. (2009). Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 1383 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lee, Kuang-Chih & Salil Prabhakar. (2008). Probabilistic orientation field estimation for fingerprint enhancement and verification. 41–46. 16 indexed citations
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Bebis, George, et al.. (2007). Minutiae-Based Template Synthesis and Matching Using Hierarchical Delaunay Triangulations. 1–8. 10 indexed citations
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Prabhakar, Salil, Josef Kittler, Davide Maltoni, Lawrence O’Gorman, & Tieniu Tan. (2007). Introduction to the Special Issue on Biometrics: Progress and Directions. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 29(4). 513–516. 30 indexed citations
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Kumar, B. V. K. Vijaya, Salil Prabhakar, & Arun Ross. (2007). Biometric Technology for Human Identification VII. 6539. 13 indexed citations
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Prabhakar, Salil, Anil K. Jain, & Sharath Pankanti. (2003). Learning fingerprint minutiae location and type. Pattern Recognition. 36(8). 1847–1857. 51 indexed citations
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Maltoni, Davide, Salil Prabhakar, Anil Jain, & Dario Maio. (2003). Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 1909 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jain, Anil K., Salil Prabhakar, & Sharath Pankanti. (2002). On the similarity of identical twin fingerprints. Pattern Recognition. 35(11). 2653–2663. 148 indexed citations
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Prabhakar, Salil & Anil K. Jain. (2002). Decision-level fusion in fingerprint verification. Pattern Recognition. 35(4). 861–874. 271 indexed citations
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Jain, Anil K. & Salil Prabhakar. (2001). Fingerprint classification and matching using a filterbank. 49 indexed citations
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Jain, Anil K., Salil Prabhakar, & Shaoyun Chen. (1999). Combining multiple matchers for a high security fingerprint verification system. Pattern Recognition Letters. 20(11-13). 1371–1379. 145 indexed citations

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