TY - JOUR AB - Fingerprints have been used to identify people for 100 years, and as a form of authentication for almost two centuries. Today’s computer and communications oriented world places great importance on authentication, and this article looks at how a new Swedish company, Precise Biometrics, has abandoned traditional fingerprint classification methods for authentication applications, after first describing those traditional methods used for both forensic and civil tasks. VL - 21 IS - 4 SN - 0260-2288 DO - 10.1108/02602280110406909 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/02602280110406909 AU - Braggins Don PY - 2001 Y1 - 2001/01/01 TI - Fingerprint sensing and analysis T2 - Sensor Review PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 272 EP - 277 Y2 - 2024/04/19 ER -