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 ...

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 ...

Biometrics is a technology that uses a human’s biological features, such as facial characteristics, fingerprint patterns, retina, DNA or behaviors (voice and signature) to authenticate a person’s ...

The forensic process is moving away from tangible, observable evidence toward what he calls “invisible evidence”, ...

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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 ...

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HAVING your password hacked is a hassle, but it is not the end of the world – after all, you can just set a new one. That’s not the case with fingerprint authentication: if someone copies your ...