Some of these challenges are being researched using non-public databases and therefore, it becomes challenging
to understand the progression in the state-of-the-art in fingerprints and to reproduce the results. It is our assertion
that the availability of a large fingerprint database containing images with variations such as multisensor, multi-spectral,
and latent vs. live-scan fingerprint images can significantlyinstigate research in the academic community and help
visualize improvements in the literature. Therefore, we have