Information Content of Friction Ridge Impressions As Revealed by Human Experts.

摘要

The goal of this project is construct a quantitative representation of the information content in fingerprints. Such a representation has two benefits. First, it can reveal those areas that experts consider most diagnostic, which might help trainees or jurors decide the value of different regions. Second, it can help guide an expert as to how diagnostic a region may be if this diagnosticity differs from their expectations. For example, there are regions known as force pattern areas in which the collision of multiple ridges can create several minutiae that might appear similar in another print.