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STANDARD AFIS REQUIREMENTS;
A
fully functional Automated Fingerprint Identification system
should provide a completely automated
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Ten print to ten
print search
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Chance/Latent
print to Ten print search
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Ten print to
chance/latent print search
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Chance/latent-to-chance/latent print search
Standard Features:
1.
Automated ten print search(The traced percentage should not be
less than 98%)
2.
Automated quality replacement of better prints
3.
Automated minutiae extraction
4.
Automated pattern recognition
5.
Automated ridge direction determination
6.
Automated minutiae, core and data detection and extraction
7.
Automated minutiae quality assignment
8.
Automated capture of logical rolled print area
9.
Automated capture of logical plain print area and comparison of
plain prints with rolled prints
10.
Automated selection of matching digit
11.
Full range of integrated chance/latent and ten print image
enhancements
12.
Manual editing of minutiae and core/delta location(s) and
directions(s)
13.
Facility to re-edit chance/latent print images without requiring
a re-scan
14.
Facility to launch secondary searches
15.
Rotation of chance/latent images during verification
16.
Side- by-side comparison
17.
Secondary/temporary database for document case examination
18.
User defined search filters
19.
User defined candidate thresholds
20.
Integration of AFIS with personal information system.
DESIRABLE FEATURES;
1.
USER FRIENDLY with the ability for the Fingerprint Experts to
quickly learn the operations of the application software
2.
Should be able to run on a stand alone desktop/laptop system,
all the way up to a nationwide system with multi million subject
databases and hundreds of Remote Query Stations
3.
Customization capabilities should include the User Interface,
and integration with external application e.g. Digital & Analog
photo imaging systems, live-Scan technology and external
database applications
4.
Ability to utilize state- of-the-art high-speed scanners
obtaining true images for ten-print conversion
5.
Backlog conversion facility of fingerprint and attribute data
6.
Ability to trace the database slip from a Photostat copy input
7.
Ability to trace juvenile fingerprints from database to adult’s
fingerprint query.
8.
Charting facility for generating ‘Grounds of opinion’ for
document cases
ADDITIONAL DESIRABLE FEATURES;
1.
Facility to maintain palm print database and conduct palm print-
palm print, palm print- Chance print & Chance print- palm print
searches.
2.
Redundant server architecture that automatically re-configures
itself in case of failure.
3.
Redundant networking subsystems, in case of inter-system
communication failure.
4.
Disk mirroring to eliminate the possibility of lost data due to
media failure
5.
A system of automated database backups to ensure that key data
is kept up-to-date.
6.
Flexible, modular and scalable solution with open system
architecture built from commercial off-the-shelf products
compliant with industry standards.
7.
State of the art Web based technologies for capturing,
enrolling, verifying, processing of finger prints for immediate
identification through the crime record or Finger print Bureau’s
Intranet or via Internet.
8.
New features and enhancements may be made available in the form
of easy to implement, straight forward software upgrades
deployable over the Internet.
9.
Integration with other image enhancing systems existing in a
bureau.
10.
Capture of chance/Latent images from paper/cards or directly
from evidence items such as curved surfaces, using a forensic
workstation.
11.
Storage and matching of palm prints in the system.
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