Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Columbia engineers have built a new AI program that shatters a long-held belief in forensics: unique-looking fingerprints belonging to the same person are more similar than previously thought. We’ve been comparing fingerprints the wrong way!
Science Advances paper: "Revealing Intra-Person Fingerprint Correlation via Deep Contrastive Learning"; by Gabe Guo, Aniv Ray, Miles Izydorczak, Judah Goldfeder, Hod Lipson, Wenyao Xu.
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Paper:
- tbd
Code:
- https://github.com/gabeguo/Fingerprin...
Data:
- https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/image-gr...
- https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/image-gr...
- https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/image-gr...
- https://www.buffalo.edu/cubs/research...
- https://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/Public...
Website:
- https://creativemachineslab.com/finge...
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AI Disclosure:
- Some graphics in this video (e.g., cartoon people) were generated using Midjourney. Midjourney was NOT used to generate any of the images of fingerprints.
Outside Media Disclosure (protected by Fair Use):
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season 11, Episode 13 ( • CSI: - The Two Mrs. Grissoms )
- Fingerprints' hidden secrets - Click - BBC News ( • Fingerprints' hidden secrets - Click ... )
- Forensics on Trial | NOVA ( • Forensics on Trial | NOVA )
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season 5, Episode 17 ( • I Want It That Way | Brooklyn Nine-Nine )
Columbia engineers have built a new AI program that shatters a long-held belief in forensics: unique-looking fingerprints belonging to the same person are more similar than previously thought. We’ve been comparing fingerprints the wrong way!
Science Advances paper: "Revealing Intra-Person Fingerprint Correlation via Deep Contrastive Learning"; by Gabe Guo, Aniv Ray, Miles Izydorczak, Judah Goldfeder, Hod Lipson, Wenyao Xu.
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Paper:
- tbd
Code:
- https://github.com/gabeguo/Fingerprin...
Data:
- https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/image-gr...
- https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/image-gr...
- https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/image-gr...
- https://www.buffalo.edu/cubs/research...
- https://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/Public...
Website:
- https://creativemachineslab.com/finge...
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AI Disclosure:
- Some graphics in this video (e.g., cartoon people) were generated using Midjourney. Midjourney was NOT used to generate any of the images of fingerprints.
Outside Media Disclosure (protected by Fair Use):
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season 11, Episode 13 ( • CSI: - The Two Mrs. Grissoms )
- Fingerprints' hidden secrets - Click - BBC News ( • Fingerprints' hidden secrets - Click ... )
- Forensics on Trial | NOVA ( • Forensics on Trial | NOVA )
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season 5, Episode 17 ( • I Want It That Way | Brooklyn Nine-Nine )
