Since the dawn of modern fingerprinting, lifting prints from bullet casings has been thought to be impossible due to damage caused by the intense temperatures, gas, and friction of firing a gun. A new ...

Abstract: Existing partial fingerprint matching methods use fingerprint ridge features and minutiae or employ algorithms like SIFT and A-KAZA to create new feature points that can replace minutiae for ...

A pioneering new test that can recover fingerprints from ammunition casing, once thought nearly impossible, has been developed by two Irish scientists. Dr. Eithne Dempsey, and her recent Ph.D. student ...

SecuGen has made its recently released Unity 20 USB-S fingerprint reader available for developers and system integrators. The compact, programmable biometric scanner is the newest addition to its ...

Getting input from users is one of the first skills every Python programmer learns. Whether you’re building a console app, validating numeric data, or collecting values in a GUI, Python’s input() ...

Functions are the building blocks of Python programming. They let you organize your code, reduce repetition, and make your programs more readable and reusable. Whether you’re writing small scripts or ...

Snagging a perpetrator just became a lot faster in Canyon and the surrounding area. At their July 1 meeting, the Canyon City Commission passed an interlocal agreement with the City of Amarillo to ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wishing for a more powerful tool to handle your data? Or maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Python in Excel and wondered if it’s truly the ...

It's Match Play time in the Golf Digest offices. At the start of golf season every year, everyone in the company is randomly drawn into a big bracket. It's a fun—and at times, heated—competition. And ...

This project takes in an image of a finger, then preprocesses this input image to extract the fingerprint and using SIFT, checks if this fingerprint is already present in the database. This project ...