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Biometrics: Fingerprinting

Biometrics: Fingerprinting. By Sherif Elzanie. Usage of Fingerprinting. Fingerprinting is the most commonly used biometric identification scheme Reasons: Cheapest, fastest and most reliable. Fingerprinting has about 60% of the biometric world market

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Biometrics: Fingerprinting

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  1. Biometrics: Fingerprinting By SherifElzanie

  2. Usage of Fingerprinting • Fingerprinting is the most commonly used biometric identification scheme • Reasons: Cheapest, fastest and most reliable. • Fingerprinting has about 60% of the biometric world market • Fingerprinting is used in criminal investigations, laptops and has been recently integrated into airports such as Heathrow.

  3. Fingerprinting

  4. How does Fingerprinting Work? • Fingerprinting basically works by identifying finger patterns that are unique to an individual. • These unique characteristics are usually composed of ridges and patterns imbedded in each person’s finger. • These unique characteristics are formerly called minutiae and are found on fingertips

  5. How does Fingerprinting work? (cont’d) • The exact method differs in each type of technology • The most common methods are optical scanning and capacitance scanning. • When a fingerprint is passed over the scanner a gray scale image is captured • Computer software identifies key minutiae points • They are converted into a unique digital representation known as a template • The template is compared and matched to all other fingerprints in the database

  6. Advantages vs Disadvantages Advantages Disadvantages It requires further standardization and quality control, to be universally accepted as a tool. • Cheap • Fast • Reliable

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