  In Biometric identification, fingerprints based identification has been the
widely accepted mechanism. Automated fingerprints identification/verification
techniques are widely adopted in many civilian and forensic applications. In
forensic applications fingerprints are usually incomplete, broken, unclear or
degraded which are known as partial fingerprints. Fingerprints
identification/verification largely suffer from the problem of handling partial
fingerprints. In this paper a novel and simple approach is presented for
detecting partial fingerprints using core point location. Our techniques is
particularly useful during the acquisition stage as to determine whether a user
needs to re-align the finger to ensure a complete capture of fingerprint
area.This technique is tested on FVC-2002 DB1A. The results are very accurate
which are presented in the Results sections.
