{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/infant-prints-fingerprints-for-reducing","title":"Infant-Prints: Fingerprints for Reducing Infant Mortality","arxiv_id":"1904.01091","date":"2019-04-01","proceeding":null,"authors":["Joshua J. Engelsma","Debayan Deb","Anil K. Jain","Prem S. Sudhish","Anjoo Bhatnager"],"abstract":"In developing countries around the world, a multitude of infants continue to\nsuffer and die from vaccine-preventable diseases, and malnutrition. Lamentably,\nthe lack of any official identification documentation makes it exceedingly\ndifficult to prevent these infant deaths. To solve this global crisis, we\npropose Infant-Prints which is comprised of (i) a custom, compact, low-cost (85\nUSD), high-resolution (1,900 ppi) fingerprint reader, (ii) a high-resolution\nfingerprint matcher, and (iii) a mobile application for search and verification\nfor the infant fingerprint. Using Infant-Prints, we have collected a\nlongitudinal database of infant fingerprints and demonstrate its ability to\nperform accurate and reliable recognition of infants enrolled at the ages 0-3\nmonths, in time for effective delivery of critical vaccinations and nutritional\nsupplements (TAR=90% @ FAR = 0.1% for infants older than 8 weeks).","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01091v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.01091v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"infant-prints-fingerprints-for-reducing","repo_url":"https://github.com/engelsjo/RaspiReader","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"tar","task_name":"TAR"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}