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Acknowledgments

The authors like to thank Prof. Anil Jain for introduction of the fingerprint individuality problem to them and for many subsequent discussions that has helped them in their research in this area. This chapter was written under the support of the NSF DMS grant 0706385.

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  1. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Sarat C. Dass

  2. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA

    S. Pankanti

  3. DigitalPersona, Redwood City, CA, USA

    S. Prabhakar

  4. Discover Financial Services, Riverwoods, IL, USA

    Y. Zhu

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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Departments of Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Anil Jain (Professor) (Professor)

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Dass, S.C., Pankanti, S., Prabhakar, S., Zhu, Y. (2009). Individuality of Fingerprints. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_58

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