Touchless fingerprint recognition represents a rapidly growing field of research which has
been studied for more than a decade. Through a touchless acquisition process, many issues …

Contactless fingerprint identification systems have been introduced to address the
deficiencies of contact-based fingerprint systems. A number of studies have been reported …

Matching contactless fingerprints or finger photos to contact-based fingerprint impressions
has received increased attention in the wake of COVID-19 due to the superior hygiene of the …

The use of vision transformers (ViT) in computer vision is increasing due to its limited
inductive biases (eg, locality, weight sharing, etc.) and increased scalability compared to …

This work presents an automated contactless fingerprint recognition system for
smartphones. We provide a comprehensive description of the entire recognition pipeline …

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 …

With the advancements in technology, smartphones' capabilities have increased immensely.
For instance, the smartphone cameras are being used for face and ocular biometric-based …

The fingerprint is a widely adopted biometric trait in forensic and civil applications.
Fingerprint biometric systems have been investigated using contact prints and latent and …

In many of the least developed and developing countries, a multitude of infants continue to
suffer and die from vaccine-preventable diseases and malnutrition. Lamentably, the lack of …

Contactless fingerprint matching using smartphone cameras can alleviate major challenges
of traditional fingerprint systems including hygienic acquisition, portability and presentation …