Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!calorie.cis.ohio-state.edu!msnyder From: msnyder@calorie.cis.ohio-state.edu (Michael V. Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: Finger print scanners Message-ID: <35036@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 13 Feb 89 22:55:20 GMT References: <8902070629.AA01107@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <890003@hpdsla.HP.COM> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Michael V. Snyder Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 20 There's a group in the next room from me working on that. Of course, law enforcement agencies currently have computerized fingerprint databases that can be scanned to identify prints, but they run on main frames or minis and are very expensive. The problem is that it's a very computationally intensive task. This group, headed I believe by Dr. Rokhlin, is trying to get efficient algorithms for scanning / digitizing prints (eg from an ordinary ink/paper version), and rapidly identifying similar prints, by using a PC with a high power coprocessor board (they're using a transputer). ______________________________________________________________________________ | | | | Handsome woman - lovely bust. | This posting is the sole opinion of | | Fine young fellow - stirred up lust, | Michael V. Snyder | | Babies' diapers, | msnyder@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu | | Bottom wipers, | | | Years of struggle - Coffin - Dust. | "everything you know is wrong" | |______________________________________|_____________________________________| ( poem appropriated from rec.humor )