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AFIS SDK
Overview
Fingerprints are unique and, because of this, became a fast, secure and reliable way to identify people. The skin on internal surfaces of hands and feet has ridges that form the patterns we know as fingerprints. These ridges on skin can fork, break and bend over, creating unique patterns. These patterns have been useful for a hundred years in law enforcement and civil enrollment.
Nowadays the experts in fingerprint identification have a great ally: The Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). Using an AFIS system, these patterns are identified by software and are used for comparison with another fingerprint pattern to determine if they came from the same finger and ultimately, from the same person.
AFIS systems can automatically detect several features like: ridge pattern, core, deltas, ridge count and minutiae. Minutiae are the points where a ridge ends or bifurcate. Based on minutiae it is possible to search on large databases and retrieve the identity of the fingerprint owner.
Key Features
- More than the fingerprint image: Auxiliary images help you to figure out different aspects of the fingerprint;
- Useful tool when manual analysis is needed: It automatically detects singularities like cores and deltas;
- Keep fingerprints organized: With automatic pattern classification the fingerprints will be classified in one of the six different possibilities;
- Enables manual adjustment: Full support to template editing;
- Prepared to extend other possibilities: Palm and latent fingerprint matching is also available;
- Additional algorithm to improve performance: Innovative matching algorithm to be used as a post matching to the conventional "minutiae based" one;
- Prepared to capture slap and rolled fingerprints: Automatic capture from the most important devices in the market;
- You can control when the fingerprint is captured: Automatic and manual capture modes available;
- Keeps your days headache-free: Functions to ease the development;
- Gives you the power you need: Features fully configurable;