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Artificial Intelligence for the detection of fingerprints

Could AI-Assisted Ridge Detection be the next big thing in fingerprint examination?
Manufactured by foster+freeman, the AARI (Amino Acid Rapid Imager) combines fully-integrated illumination and imaging technology that streamlines the fingerprint visualisation, imaging and mark-up process, completing in under 2-minutes tasks that may previously have taken hours. Perhaps more interestingly, the AARI device also includes a unique AI-Assist software feature that is set to revolutionise how forensic experts search for areas of identifiable ridge detail.
Developed using Machine Learning technology, AI Assist aids the examiner by searching captured images (up to US Letter size) and quickly locating areas of fingerprint ridge detail. The process requires only one click of a mouse by the operator and takes just a few seconds to complete.