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 …

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 …

Accurate automatic personal identification is critical in a variety of applications in our
electronically interconnected society. Biometrics, which refers to identification based on …

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

One of the most challenging problems in fingerprint recognition continues to be establishing
the identity of a suspect associated with partial and smudgy fingerprints left at a crime scene …

In the first part of this paper we reviewed the fingerprint classification literature from two
different perspectives: the feature extraction and the classifier learning. Aiming at answering …

Latent fingerprint identification is of critical importance in criminal investigation. FBI's Next
Generation Identification program demands latent fingerprint identification to be performed …

Decreasing the number of matching comparisons between presented fingerprints and their
respective templates in automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS) is salient …

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

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with the cooperation of eight
technology providers, performed a test of accuracy for searching latent fingerprints when …