Latent fingerprints are considered as one of the important evidences obtained from the site
of crime. The process of develo**, acquiring, processing and matching of latent …

Latent fingerprint identification is attracting increasing interest because of its important role
in law enforcement. Although the use of various fingerprint features might be required for …

In 1962 Hough earned the patent for a method [1], popularly called Hough Transform (HT)
that efficiently identifies lines in images. It is an important tool even after the golden jubilee …

Minutiae extraction is of critical importance in automated fingerprint recognition. Previous
works on rolled/slap fingerprints failed on latent fingerprints due to noisy ridge patterns and …

Latent fingerprints are one of the most important and widely used evidence in law
enforcement and forensic agencies worldwide. Yet, NIST evaluations show that the …

Online palmprint recognition and latent palmprint identification are two branches of
palmprint studies. The former uses middle-resolution images collected by a digital camera in …

Latent fingerprint identification is such a difficult task to law enforcement agencies and
border security in identifying suspects. It is a too complicate due to poor quality images with …

Fingerprint recognition has found a reliable application for verification or identification of
people in biometrics. Globally, fingerprints can be viewed as valuable traits due to several …

For more than half a century, the Hough transform is ever-expanding for new frontiers.
Thousands of research papers and numerous applications have evolved over the decades …

Large-scale fingerprint recognition involves capturing ridge patterns at different time
intervals using various methods, such as live-scan and paper-ink approaches, introducing …