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Minutia Template Exchange Format
R. M. Bolle, N. K. Ratha, A. Senior and S. Pankanti
In proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, pp. 74-77, Summit NJ, 28-29 October 1999.

Fingerprints have been used for authentication and identification purposes for centuries. Most of the fingerprint identification/authentication systems are based on "minutia features" though there are other image correlation­based systems. In the minutia­based systems, vendors use many "private" features to improve accuracy. This becomes an obstacle for easy exchange of templates to support inter­operability of fingerprint templates. In this paper, we propose a minutia template exchange format keeping inter­operability in mind.

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