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EARPRINT [1 record]

Record 1 2014-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biometrics
CONT

Biometrics can also read your eye and even your ear print because they each have a unique mapping.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biométrie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biometría
CONT

[...] los organismos británicos dedicados a la Investigación Criminal decidieron crear una base de datos de orejas de individuos voluntarios con el fin de demostrar que, del mismo modo que ocurre con las huellas dactilares, no existen dos orejas exactamente iguales. Y en 2004, patólogos forenses de la Universidad de Leicester dieron un paso clave al desarrollar un sistema informático que permite identificar a un individuo utilizando su huella auricular.

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