Contactless fingerprinting

Contactless fingerprinting technology (CFP) was described in a government-funded report as an attempt to gather and add fingerprints to those gathered via wet-ink process and then, in a "touchless" scan, verify claimed identify and, a bigger challenge, identify their owners without additional clues.

Although an early source of this technology, which worked with phone cameras (and not needing additional hardware), opened in 2003 and closed in 2011,[1] others in this space are still, several years later, using the words "one of the first."[2]

Contactless fingerprint technology is the third generation: Wet-ink was followed by an option for "optics-based ... light reflected from the tops of fingerprints on a plate."[3]

As of 2017, "face recognition technologies on the whole are in general less accurate than fingerprinting.": p.15  Aging, variations in pose and problems with illumination have caused the former to have "higher error rates."

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  2. ^ asemothman (July 27, 2017). "IamA biometric scientist working on touchless fingerprint capture on mobile devices. AMA!". Reddit.[unreliable source?]
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