Thursday, November 22, 2012

Relationship between Fingerprint Identification and Fingerprint Details?


What is the relationship between the accuracy of fingerprint identification and the degree of the detail in a fingerprint image? Is it always true that the more granular the fingerprint image, the more accurate the identification process?

I think not.

What do you think?


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3 comments:

Unknown said...

See the interesting post on fingerprint identification: http://henrytempleman.com/validation_study

Unknown said...

A subatomic level fingerprint image would be quite detailed, yes? But ...

Unknown said...

Compare C. Coppock, "Complexity of Recognition, Inductive and Inferential Processes in Forensic Science" (blog post) (Dec. 12, 2011), http://fingerprintindividualization.blogspot.com/2011/12/complexity-of-recognition.html

"The very key to this recognition concept, as applied to forensic science, was illustrated by the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). His insight was that; all natural objects could be differentiated if examined in sufficient detail."