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Description: The fingerprint images we used in this project were sourced from the NIST Special Database 300 , which consists of 8871 rolled fingerprints, which were donated to NIST by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Unfortunately, NIST has not made this special database openly available, and we do not have permission to “distribute it further, publish, copy, or disseminate it in any way or form whatsoever, whether for profit or not.” If you’d like to access the images we used in this project, contact fingerprint_data@nist.gov to get permission from NIST to use the database (it’s freely available for biometrics related research, development, and education), forward Jason Tangen the automated access email, and he’ll send you a link to the images we used in this project.