Biometric recognition, or simply biometrics, refers to the use of distinctive anatomical and/or
behavioral characteristics or identifiers (eg, fingerprints, face, iris, voice, and hand geometry) …

The widespread deployment of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) in law
enforcement and border control applications has heightened the need for ensuring that …

Identifying latent fingerprints is of vital importance for law enforcement agencies to
apprehend criminals and terrorists. Compared to live-scan and inked fingerprints, the image …

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 …

Fingerprints are the one of the most important means in the forensics as a means of
identification of the criminals owning to the uniqueness and the distinct features in them …

Dictionary based orientation field estimation approach has shown promising performance
for latent fingerprints. In this paper, we seek to exploit stronger prior knowledge of …

The fuzzy vault scheme is a cryptographic primitive that can be used to protect human
fingerprint templates where stored. Analyses for most implementations account for brute …

Fingerprint matching is a widely used process to aid in crime scene investigation, where
fingerprint fragments are often found on objects and surfaces. In such cases, the lifted …

Fingerprint recognition plays an important role in many commercial applications and is used
by millions of people every day, eg for unlocking mobile phones. Fingerprint image …

Computation of local orientations is a primary step in fingerprint recognition. A large number
of approaches have been proposed in the literature, but no systematic quantitative …