FpVTE 2003
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updated 25 November 2009
The results of FpVTE are based on (1-to-Many) fingerprint matching technologies and capabilities from
2003 so they are very dated and should only be used accordingly. For results on more recent (1-to-1) fingerprint
matching technology capabilities, readers should refer to results posted on the Proprietary Fingerprint Template
(PFT ) testing website: http://fingerprint.nist.gov/PFT. More recent (1-to-1) fingerprint matching
technology capabilities using the exchange of standard minutiae templates are posted on the Ongoing Minutiae Exchange (MINEX) website:
http://fingerprint.nist.gov/minex .
- Final Report (NISTIR 7123):
- The Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE) 2003
is an independently administered technology evaluation of fingerprint
matching, identification, and verification systems. FpVTE 2003
is being conducted by the National Institute of Standards & Technology
(NIST) on behalf of the Justice Management Division (JMD) of
the U.S. Department of Justice.
- FpVTE was designed to assess the capability of fingerprint
systems to meet requirements for both large-scale and small-scale
real world applications. FpVTE 2003 consists of multiple tests
performed with combinations of fingers (e.g., single fingers,
two index fingers, four to ten fingers) and different types and
qualities of operational fingerprints (e.g., flat livescan images
from visa applicants, multi-finger slap livescan images from
present-day booking or background check systems, or rolled and
flat inked fingerprints from legacy criminal databases).
- FpVTE 2003 will serve as part of NIST's statutory mandate
under section 403c of the USA PATRIOT Act to certify those biometric
technologies that may be used in U.S. VISIT (U.S. Visitor and
Immigrant Status Indication Technology, formerly known as the
US entry-exit system). In addition, FpVTE results may form the
basis for the design and acquisition of other large-scale fingerprint
identification systems.
- FpVTE 2003 evaluations were conducted at the NIST facilities
at Gaithersburg, MD, from October 2003 through November 2003.
- Small, Medium, and Large-Scale Tests (SST, MST and LST) were
conducted using systems provided by 18 Participants:
- 123 ID, Inc. (MST, LST)
- Antheus Technology, Inc. (MST, LST)
- Av@lon Systems Inc. (MST)
- BioLink Technologies International, Inc. (MST, LST)
- Bioscrypt, Inc. (SST)
- Cogent Systems, Inc. (SST, MST, LST)
- Dermalog Identification Systems GmbH (MST, LST)
- Golden Finger Systems (MST, LST)
- Griaule Tecnologia (LST)
- Identix, Inc. (MST, LST)
- SAGEM MORPHO, Inc. (MST, LST)
- NEC (MST, LST)
- Neurotechnologija Ltd. (MST)
- The Phoenix Group, Inc. (MST)
- Motorola (MST, LST)
- Raytheon Company (MST, LST)
- Technoimagia Co., Ltd. (MST)
- Ultra-Scan Corporation (MST)
- FpVTE 2003 analysis and methodologies were built in part
on the multi-agency Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2002.
See http://www.frvt.org
- FpVTE was announced on FedBizOpps.gov (FpVTE Listing; cached), and in several postings to the Biometric
Consortium Listserv.
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