Pith Number

pith:VLS46CCD

pith:2018:VLS46CCD5HTOMM44HVISD43V5N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Latent Fingerprint Recognition: Role of Texture Template

Anil K. Jain, Kai Cao

arxiv:1804.10337 v1 · 2018-04-27 · cs.CV

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLS46CCD5HTOMM44HVISD43V5N}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:17:21.048827Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aae5cf0843e9e6e6339c3d5121f375eb40b1ad6d654e405d16396fb29a406e6c

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.10337 · arxiv_version: 1804.10337v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.10337 · pith_short_12: VLS46CCD5HTO · pith_short_16: VLS46CCD5HTOMM44 · pith_short_8: VLS46CCD

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VLS46CCD5HTOMM44HVISD43V5N \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: aae5cf0843e9e6e6339c3d5121f375eb40b1ad6d654e405d16396fb29a406e6c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb414b2d48679f8e3336406bb950ff98ab4e3deb0471e73257aaf986d47b2a86",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-27T04:26:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2aaf2cc53c0a263ec55dbe626e5a0ab2a29f810faa91544afa13d8cb6637d3e6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.10337",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}