Last week I had to go to my local INS office to get fingerprinted
(part of the green card process is getting your fingerprints OK'ed by
the FBI (and also presumably stored for future reference)). The
process is computerised, with a low-res scan of all the fingers taken
once, and then each finger
I believe NIST published something about FBI needing 40 minutia standard
for registration in their database.
On tv you see these things about lifting partial prints and then sending
them off to FBI to try and find who the partial print matches with, aka the
FBI better have rather detailed
JI,
Keep in mind that this is the _creation_ of the database entry. Yes,
you want the data in the database to be as completely accurate as
possible. Later, when they only have partial prints, they can perform
a lookups of partial data using the complete database. I think the
same would be
At 02:46 PM 1/28/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The process took about 20-30 minutes;
Have you been fingerprinted before? Did it take that long in that case? In
my own experience, it only takes a few minutes to be fingerprinted on a
standard card and, in theory, they should be able to build a
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 02:54:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe NIST published something about FBI needing 40 minutia standard
for registration in their database.
[reasons why the FBI wants so many minutae deleted]
As an example of the real world, a couple years ago I put
There is some interesting information at http://www.finger-scan.com/
They make the point that finger scanning differs from finger printing
in that what is stored is a set of recognition parameters much
smaller than a complete fingerprint image. So there is no need for a
lengthily process to
