Finger Minutiae Record – Finger Image Record (FMR-FIR) modality

August 4, 2023

To prevent Aadhaar-enabled Payment System (AePS) frauds by the use of spoofed fingerprints during Aadhaar authentication, the UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has rolled out an in-house Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning technology-based Finger Minutiae Record – Finger Image Record (FMR-FIR) modality which is able to check the liveness of a fingerprint to detect the use of cloned fingerprint during the authentication process.
It uses a combination of both finger minutiae and finger image to check the liveness of the fingerprint captured.
- In the field of biometrics, minutiae refer to certain small features of a fingerprint image.
This ensures that only real fingerprints are used for verification, thus enhancing security and preventing fraud.