A major new professional reference work on fingerprint security systems and technology from leading international researchers in the field. Handbook provides authoritative and comprehensive coverage of all major topics, concepts, and methods for fingerprint security systems. This unique reference work is an absolutely essential resource for all biometric security professionals, researchers, and systems administrators.
If you want to work with fingerprints in a profound way, I can easily recommend this book. The part about representing fingerprints is must read literature for anyone trying to do biometric research. I wrote my master thesis on minutiae extraction and most of my knowledge about fingerprints is from this book.
The only problem I have with this book that is slowly getting older and many of the new techniques involving deep learning for example are not included in this book, because they did not exist at the time.