Abstract:
:The ability of friction ridge examiners to correctly discern and make use of the ridges and associated features in finger or palm impressions is limited by clarity. The clarity of an impression relates to the examiner's confidence that the presence, absence, and attributes of features can be correctly discerned. Despite the importance of clarity in the examination process, there have not previously been standard methods for assessing clarity in friction ridge impressions. We introduce a process for annotation, analysis, and interchange of friction ridge clarity information that can be applied to latent or exemplar impressions. This paper: (1) describes a method for evaluating the clarity of friction ridge impressions by using color-coded annotations that can be used by examiners or automated systems; (2) discusses algorithms for overall clarity metrics based on manual or automated clarity annotation; and (3) defines a method of quantifying the correspondence of clarity when comparing a pair of friction ridge images, based on clarity annotation and resulting metrics. Different uses of this approach include examiner interchange of data, quality assurance, metrics, and as an aid in automated fingerprint matching.
journal_name
Forensic Sci Intjournal_title
Forensic science internationalauthors
Hicklin RA,Buscaglia J,Roberts MAdoi
10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.12.015subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-03-10 00:00:00pages
106-17issue
1-3eissn
0379-0738issn
1872-6283pii
S0379-0738(12)00552-Xjournal_volume
226pub_type
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