Fingerprints have long been considered the gold standard of crime investigation techniques. As early as 1903, America — with ...

Fingerprint biometrics accuracy continues to improve, as shown by December entries to NIST’s Friction Ridge Image and ...

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 ...

The research team of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a system for three-dimensional (3D) fingerprint identification by adopting ground breaking 3D fingerprint recovery and ...

Biometric identification from a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger is often used as evidence in criminal investigations. Yes, now we can use the same biometric ...

The FBI today said it’s made a long-awaited switch from its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to an upgraded, faster one the FBI calls Advanced Fingerprint Information Technology ...

Like every snowflake ever made, every fingerprint etched onto a person’s skin is one-of-a-kind. Since the late 1800s, fingerprints have been used by authorities to identify individuals who may have ...

Facial photographs and iris scans are now legally recognized as biometric identifiers for Pakistan’s national and digital ...