Latent fingerprints are one of the most important and widely used evidence in law
enforcement and forensic agencies worldwide. Yet, NIST evaluations show that the …

Latent fingerprints are one of the most important and widely used sources of evidence in law
enforcement and forensic agencies. Yet the performance of the state-of-the-art latent …

Latent fingerprint identification is of critical importance to law enforcement agencies in
identifying suspects: Latent fingerprints are inadvertent impressions left by fingers on …

Latent fingerprints are usually processed with Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems
(AFIS) by law enforcement agencies to narrow down possible suspects from a criminal …

Latent fingerprint identification is attracting increasing interest because of its important role
in law enforcement. Although the use of various fingerprint features might be required for …

Matching incomplete or partial fingerprints continues to be an important challenge today,
despite the advances made in fingerprint identification techniques. While the introduction of …

Latent fingerprint has been used as evidence in the court of law for over 100 years.
However, even today, a completely automated latent fingerprint system has not been …

Latent fingerprint matching has played a critical role in identifying suspects and criminals.
However, compared to rolled and plain fingerprint matching, latent identification accuracy is …

Identifying suspects based on impressions of fingers lifted from crime scenes (latent prints) is
a routine procedure that is extremely important to forensics and law enforcement agencies …

For simplicity of pattern recognition system design, a sequential approach consisting of
sensing, feature extraction and classification/matching is conventionally adopted, where …