Fingerprint Analysis with Marked Point Processes
  We present a framework for fingerprint matching based on marked point process models. An efficient Monte Carlo algorithm is developed to calculate the marginal likelihood ratio for the hypothesis that two observed prints originate from the same finger against the hypothesis that they originate from different fingers. Our model achieves good performance on an NIST-FBI fingerprint database of 258 matched fingerprint pairs. 
Peter G. M. Forbes and Steffen Lauritzen and Jesper M{\o}ller
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