AI clears up images of fingerprints to help with identification
Blurred fingerprints can be hard to identify Shutterstock/Bushko Oleksandr
An AI that can repair blurred or distorted images of fingerprints lifted from crime scenes could make identifying people easier, but it is unclear whether such evidence would stup in court.
Amol Joshi at West Virginia University his colleagues trained an AI to cancel out distortions of fingerprints caused by incorrect camera focusing other errors.
The team took a data set of 15,860 clean fingerprint images from 250 subjects created blurred versions of them synthetically at varying levels of distortion. …