Researchers Give High Marks to New Technology for Fingerprint Identification (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Researchers Give High Marks to New Technology for Fingerprint Identification

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Determining the identity of the owners of latent prints is often key to crime scene research, such as the owner of this latent printed pulled from a fingernail file. A NIST test shows that emerging software that automates the extraction of distinguishing features from latent prints is more advanced than expected.

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