AI Learns to Correlate a Person’s Unique Fingerprints

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. ~ Paper: - tbd Code: - Data: - - - - - Website: - ~ 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 Med