Blurred fingerprints can be hard to identify Shutterstock/Bushko Oleksandr
An AI that can repair blurred or distorted images of fingerprints lifted from crime scenes could make identifying people easier, but it is unclear whether such evidence would stand up in court.
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Amol Joshi at West Virginia University and his colleagues trained an AI to cancel out distortions of fingerprints caused by incorrect camera focusing and other errors.
The team took a data set of 15,860 clean fingerprint images from 250 subjects and created blurred versions of them synthetically at varying levels of distortion. …