Related Association
Biometric Consortium -- serves as the US government's focal point for research, development, test, evaluation, and application of biometric-based personal identification/verification technology.。
The International Biometric Industry Association (IBIA)-- IBIA is governed by and for biometric developers, manufacturers and integrators, and is impartially dedicated to serve all biometric technologies in all applications.
NIST -- National Institute of Standards and Technology，establish the standard of fingerprint compression。
the International Association for Identification(IAI)
BioAPI Consortium
Biometric Technology Today(BTT)
The Biometric Digest

Important Research Institutes on Fingerprint
PRIP MSU -- Pattern Recognition and Image Process Research Group Of Compute Department Michigan State University USA.
Biometric Systems Lab -- Biometrics Feature Recognition System Lab of Bologna University Italy.
IAPR
Southern California Association of Fingerprint Officers

　
Reference Resource
Pattern Recognition Information -- Information resource on patent recognition field.
NEC -- Science literature search engine
SPIE -- International Photoelectricity Engineering Union, that can search on-line electronic edition science material(not free).
Groups biometrics -- Yahoo Biometrics Feature Technology forum.
the pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence web sit of Beijing Post University