1) Touchless fingerprint systems use remote sensing to capture fingerprints without physical contact, avoiding issues like skin distortion, slippage, and residue seen in touch-based systems. They allow for larger capture areas and higher user comfort.
2) 3D touchless fingerprint systems acquire full fingerprint images from multiple views and extract a 3D shape of the finger. The 3D print can then be unwrapped onto a 2D plane either through parametric modeling like cylindrical projection or non-parametric direct unfolding.
3) Key steps in fingerprint recognition systems using touchless scans include image acquisition, preprocessing, feature extraction like finding minutiae, and matching against an existing database.