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In order to identify subjects in a convenient and efficient way one must use some special feature that makes it possible to discriminate between persons. Some of the features are biometric in nature, such as iris texture, hand shape, the human face, and of course finger prints. These play an important role in many automatic identification systems, since every person is believed to have a unique set of fingerprints. Before a fingerprint image can be looked up in a database, it has to be classified into one of 5 types in order to reduce processing times.
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González, A., Ameller F., M.A. (2011). An Enhancement of the Usage of the Poincare Index for the Detection and Classification of Characteristic Points in Dactylograms. In: Rocha, M.P., Rodríguez, J.M.C., Fdez-Riverola, F., Valencia, A. (eds) 5th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (PACBB 2011). Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 93. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19914-1_17
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