Perhaps the most beautiful and characteristic of all superficial marks are the small furrows with the intervening ridges and their pores that are disposed in a singularly complex yet even order on the under surfaces of the hands and the feet.

Francis Galton, Nature, June 28, 1888.

Lecture Materials

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Additional Exercises

Additional exercises to be posted.

Datasets

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Software

Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio, Anil K. Jain, and Jianjiang Feng, Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition, Third Edition, Springer, 2022.

Additional References

Steven A. Grosz and Anil. K. Jain, Universal Fingerprint Generation: Controllable Diffusion Model with Multimodal Conditions, to appear in the IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2024.