U.K. researchers unsmudge fingerprints / GCN.com, 1 October 2007
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45135-1.html
Joab Jackson
"UK researchers have developed a technique for identifying fingerprints that have been smudged, clipped, distorted or otherwise badly recorded. The researchers, from the University of Warwick, also claim the identification only takes seconds to execute, no matter the size of the database the prints are being compared against."