{"id":34454,"date":"2011-09-21T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=34454"},"modified":"2011-09-22T09:45:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T07:45:48","slug":"csir-develope-new-fingerprint-classification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/34454-csir-develope-new-fingerprint-classification.html","title":{"rendered":"CSIR develop new fingerprint classification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African researchers have developed a new fingerprint classification and recognition technique, the <a title=\"Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/367364-Council-for-Scientific-and-Industrial-Research-(CSIR)\">Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)<\/a> said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The structural fingerprint classifier&#8230; is able to correctly classify a fingerprint with only partial information,&#8221; the CSIR said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also introduced novel features to speed up the recognition of fingerprints.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The technique is faster as it breaks down the overall database into smaller chunks to improve the performance of the fingerprint recognition system,&#8221; the CSIR said.<\/p>\n<p>In the old fingerprint recognition system, the templates usually sat in a database. When going an identification process, thousands of templates had to be sifted through. This slowed down the process.<\/p>\n<p>The new technique was already being used by home affairs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a major breakthrough that can contribute to the creation of much faster systems in the future,&#8221; the CSIR said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African researchers have developed a new fingerprint classification and recognition technique<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":34456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,3446],"class_list":["post-34454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-csir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34458,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34454\/revisions\/34458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}