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Brislawn, C.M. (2002). The FBI Fingerprint Image Compression Specification. In: Topiwala, P.N. (eds) Wavelet Image and Video Compression. The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 450. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47043-8_16

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