Fingerprints have long been used as the "gold standard" for forensic analysis and criminal investigations, as prints of different fingers from the same person – also known.
“The most immediate application is it can help generate new leads for cold cases, where the fingerprints left at the crime scene are from different fingers than those on file,” a Columbia University student said.
New research suggests that our fingerprints aren't actually unique, in what could potentially be a blow to a long held cornerstone of forensic science, and indeed a very widely held belief. The work, published as a study in the journal Science Advances, involved using a type of AI model commonly used for facial recognition which […]