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Scientific evidence supporting fingerprint individuality (i.e., quantifying the extent of uniqueness of a fingerprint) is being increasingly demanded, particularly in forensic applications when a suspect is tried for conviction in a court of law. This has generated interest in designing fingerprint individuality models which will quantify the evidential value of fingerprints. This chapter introduces both theoretical and empirical studies on fingerprint individuality: the former is based on statistical models taking into account inter-class and intra-class pattern variations, the latter relying on modeling match (similarity) scores (given a matcher and a corpus of operational fingerprint data). Fingerprint persistence over time is finally addressed in the last section of the chapter.
Portions reprinted with permission from IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 1010–1025, 2002. © 2002 IEEE.
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Maltoni, D., Maio, D., Jain, A.K., Feng, J. (2022). Fingerprint Individuality. In: Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83624-5_8
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