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Soon, a mobile tool to recognize fingerprints
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 22:18 IST |
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Washington: Following the demand by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. based National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an application for a handheld touch screen devices, which can help in creating a portable tool to recognize faces and fingerprints.
In anti-terrorism operations, the hostage rescue team of the FBI has been using a laptop that was loaded with a fingerprint scanner to identity criminals, hence the intelligence agency wanted to equip them with a more portable device for which it approached the NIST. Initially, the FBI wanted NIST to only develop software to run on its own platform, reports ANI. Following this, Mary Theofanos, Brian Stanton, Yee-Yin Choong and Ross Micheals, who are researchers at NIST, got more details from FBI on the kind of device they wanted.
The FBI hostage rescue team was surprised by the outcome of the design, which was as per their requirements. They needed a small tool that could take pictures of fingerprints or faces and send the data wirelessly to a central hub for analysis, all with lesser touch strokes. But Theofanos, Stanton and Choong wanted to take the program further, by developing smartphones with touch screen devices that could identify fingerprints and faces.
Earlier, the NIST team had been associated with other security agencies on Mobile ID project. This was a method to help officers identify people quickly and easily on the crime scene, instead of taking them back to the central command to be fingerprinted.