Researchers are focusing on various enhancement techniques to improve the quality of fingerprint images, especially those ... from high-quality samples by optimizing minutia information, which ...

In 2008, the then German interior minister, [Wolfgang Schäuble] had his fingerprint reproduced by ... technique combining it with a conventional image to detect spoofing. Best of all, the whole ...

A scanner used to identify a person's fingerprint for security purposes. After a sample is taken, access to a computer or other system is granted if the fingerprint matches the stored sample.