Finding treasures with physics: the fingerprint matrix

Finding treasures with physics: the fingerprint matrix(tuwien.at)

30 points by v4rp1ng 226 days ago | 6 comments

lyu07282 223 days ago |

> the fingerprint method has now also been submitted for patenting and taken up by a medical technology company

v4rp1ng 226 days ago |

So simple — why hasn't anyone thought of that already?

signa11 223 days ago | |

typically you don’t know that you are looking for steel-balls in sand, you might be looking for gold coins etc. in such cases the space of all interesting fingerprints is just too large.

efm 223 days ago | | |

The interesting fingerprints are the ones which are different than the surrounding material.

tanderson92 223 days ago | |

They have.