Awesome Forensic Fingerprint Matching

A curated list of awesome tools and literature for forensic fingerprint matching.

Open source software

NIST's fingerprint image quality algorithm (NFIQ). Part of the NIST open source Biometric Image Software (see below).
- See NFIQ2 in particular.

FingerJetFXOSE minutiae extraction algorithm
⭐ NIST's open source Biometric Image Software. Complete suite of tools for minutiae-based fingerprint matching developped for the FBI and DHS. Contains:
- A "fingerprint image quality algorithm, NFIQ, which analyses a fingerprint image and assigns a quality value of 1 (highest quality) 5(lowest quality) to the image."
- A fingerprint pattern classification system, PCASYS.
- A minutiae detector called, MINDTCT.
- A fingerprint matching algorithm, BOZORTH3.
- More, such as fingerprint detection and segmentation algorithms, and image manipulation utilities.
⭐ LatentAFIS. Latent fingerprint identification and matching. Developped at MSU and supported by a series of paper. Provides a gui as well as command line tools.
SourceAFIS. Open source fingerprint software (Java and .NET) with an explanation of their algorithm here.
OpenAFIS. High performance C++ fingerprint matching library. Note: does not extract minutiae.

FRStat software to statistically assess "the significance of an association between two friction ridge skin impressions." Paper is available here.

Maltoni et al. (2009) Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition: thorough treatment of minutiae-based methods with additional topics such as synthetic fingerprint generation.
PhD thesis "Fingerprint Recognition for Forensic Applications". Develops an evidence evaluation framework based on probabilistic matching (i.e. using likelihood ratios).
Wavelet transforms for fingerprint matching: Automatic fingerprint identification system based on Level 3 features.