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Fingerprint Interoperability Standards

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Author(s)

R. McCabe

Abstract

The commercialization of the Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) began in the mid 1970s with the installation of five systems at the FBI. In subsequent years, additional vendors developed competing AFISs without considering any aspects of fingerprint data exchange between the systems. This chapter will describe and review the standards created to effect interoperability between dissimilar systems, the certification procedure for the WSQ compression algorithm, image quality issues, and the reference databases developed to assist manufacturers and researchers.
Citation
Advances in Fingerprint Recognition

Keywords

AFIS, ANSI, fingerprint, identification, minutiae, mugshot, resolution, standards, WSQ

Citation

McCabe, R. (2003), Fingerprint Interoperability Standards, Advances in Fingerprint Recognition, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=50764 (Accessed October 31, 2024)

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Created May 1, 2003, Updated February 19, 2017