A study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows that computerized systems that match fingerprints using interoperable minutiae templates -- mathematical representations of a ...

Now that they're in smartphones, fingerprint scanners seem to be everywhere, but what's really going on behind the scenes when they're scanned?

A system for three-dimensional (3-D) fingerprint identification has been developed by adopting ground breaking 3-D fingerprint minutiae recovery and matching technology, pushing contactless biometric ...

Forensic science has long held that fingerprints are singular identifiers, unique to each finger and each individual. This assumption has formed the backbone of global law enforcement, identity ...

Amazingly, you might have escaped seeing any of the TV shows in the current craze for forensic science dramas, and so you will have missed out on the latest ways to track down wrongdoers. Even so, you ...

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QUESTION: Why don’t we have the same fingerprints as other people? ANSWER: When trying to answer this question, we should first take a look at the concept of a fingerprint. A fingerprint is an ...

Each individual's fingerprints are unique—the tiny loops, ridges and whorls on the epidermis are even more distinctive than a person's DNA and are one of the best ways we have of identifying a person ...

In 2009, a Chinese woman illegally entered Japan by altering her fingerprints in order to fool immigration officials. While it was Japan's first documented case of biometric fraud, disguising ...