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PUBLICATIONS

Special Database 34 – Plain and Rolled fingerprints from live and rescanned images

Published

Author(s)

Patricia A. Flanagan

Abstract

The new NIST database comes from the FBI which contains live-scan and rescanned ink images from deceased subjects. The database offers the user American National Standards Institute- Information Technology Laboratory/National Institute of Standards and Technology (ANSI-ITL/NIST) formatted files that contain 10 rolled fingerprints, a left and right slap and a right plain thumbprint and a left plain thumbprint. THIS DATABASE HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED
Citation
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 8024
Report Number
8024
NIST Pub Series
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

Keywords

ANSI/NIST format, FBI, fingerprint, rolled, plain, WSQ compression, segmentation
Biometrics

Citation

Flanagan, P. (2018), Special Database 34 – Plain and Rolled fingerprints from live and rescanned images, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (Accessed December 3, 2023)

Created April 9, 2018, Updated May 9, 2018