What is it about?
Fingerprints are daily used to solve cold-cases and at border checks. Interestingly, fingerprints are also found on terracotta objects from past artisans. This paper outlines the opportunities of fingerprint recognition in cultural heritage research.
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Why is it important?
This is the first manuscript that catalogues thoroughly the findings related to fingerprints found on terracotta sculptures and pottery in the context of cultural heritage research. We summarize fingerprint-based imaging technologies, reconstruction methods, and analyses used in biometrics that could be beneficial to the study of ancient fingerprints in cultural heritage. We discuss open challenges and future works that could initiate novel strategies for ancient fingerprint acquisition, digitization, and processing within the cultural heritage community.
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I hope this publication can nurture future discussions and collaborations linked to fingerprint-based research in cultural heritage, both in the Netherlands and abroad. At the same time, I genuinely hope that this manuscript serves as a solid basis for anyone wishing to learn more about the topic in a catalogued manner. Fingerprint-based research is a niche field in the cultural heritage domain, yet there is so much to be discovered!
Dzemila Sero
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
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This page is a summary of: The Study of Three-Dimensional Fingerprint Recognition in Cultural Heritage, Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, December 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3461341.
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