MCC Software Development Kit (SDK) - Version 2.

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Copyright (c) 2015, Cappelli R., Ferrara M., Maltoni D. and Maio D. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use of this software in source or binary forms, and of any data obtained by means of this
software, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1) [1], [2], [3] and [4] are cited in any paper that makes any use of this software or generated data;
2) the software and any generated data are used for research purposes only;
3) redistributions must reproduce the above notice of copyright, this list of conditions, and the following
disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution;
4) neither the name of the University of Bologna nor the names of MCC contributors may be used to
endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

[1] R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "Minutia Cylinder-Code: a new representation and matching technique for
fingerprint recognition", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence, vol.32, no.12, pp.2128-2141,
December 2010;

[2] R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara, and D. Maltoni, "Fingerprint Indexing based on Minutia Cylinder Code," IEEE Transactions on
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 1051-1057, May 2011.

[3] M. Ferrara, D. Maltoni and R. Cappelli, "Noninvertible Minutia Cylinder-Code Representation", IEEE Transactions on
Information Forensics and Security, vol.7, no.6, pp.1727-1737, December 2012.

[4] M. Ferrara, D. Maltoni and R. Cappelli, "A Two-Factor Protection Scheme for MCC Fingerprint Templates", in
proceedings International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), Darmstadt, Germany,
September 2014.

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