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VERIFICATION: This step includes verifying the person’s identity
V ER IFIC A T ION:
by comparing his own templates in the stored databases.

TYPES OF BIOMETRICS
T YP E S OF BIOME T R IC S
• FINGERPRINT BIOMETRICS: Fingerprints are the most important

evidence that plays a crucial role in crime detection because of their

robustness and uniqueness. Fingerprints are the patterns formed by

the friction ridges on the fingertips. When a latent fingerprint is col-

lected from the crime scene, these are scanned, and all the minutiae
and patterns are noted down by the biometric system and compared

with the information stored in the database.

Fig. 1: Fingerprint scanner

• FACE BIOMETRICS: Face biometry-based identification is a tech-

nology where a person is identified based on his/her facial character-

istics. A picture or a video of a person is collected and matched with a

stored copy in the database. The extracted features from this biomet-
ric system are based on facial alignment, facial landmarks, etc. When

they are compared with the biometric database, it gives the calculated

similarity score.

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