Abstract
Latent fingerprint has become more popular and attracted among the researchers in the recent days and it has been used widely in security such as India’s Aadhaar project, Department of Homeland Security’s US-VISIT program, the UK Border Agency, law enforcement and forensic applications. There have been different biometric traits that were used for matching to identify the person. While investigation a small number of accesses are recognized in latent fingerprint images because the fingerprint has own individuality. Latent fingerprint has been consisting some challenges in term of poor quality images, unclear texture and nonlinear distortion, appropriate matching algorithm and publicly available latent fingerprint database. Consequently, the study has considered and talked about different accessible strategies and methods that have been utilized as a part of the past exploration concentrates on furthermore gives the bearing to further research in the different field of inactive unique finger impression application.