Vendors that develop fingerprint templates and matchers usually develop their own proprietary algorithms, but there is one instance in which the vendors work together.
ANSI INCITS 378-2009 (S2019) specifies a universal fingerprint format, and vendors can develop 378-compatible template generators and matchers.
How are these measured? By NIST’s MINEX III testing.
To find the current results dfor MINEX III compliant template generators and matchers, visit https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/btg/minex-iii-compliant-submissions.
When sorted in NIST default order for a false negative match rate at a given false match rate (“Pooled 2 Fingers FNMR @ FMR≤10-2“), the top vendors include IDEMIA, Innovatrics, and Neurotechnology.
But remember that this only matters when using ANSI INCITS 378 templates. It doesn’t matter if you’re using a vendor’s proprietary template.
So who uses ANSI INCITS 378 templates?
- Cards and systems based upon Personal Identity Verification (PIV) templates, as specified by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) and FIPS 201.
- Certain cards using Match-on-Card technology.
But most systems you encounter will NOT use ANSI INCITS 378, so the standard may not matter to you at all.
Do your customers care?
But even if you are deploying systems that use ANSI INCITS 378, your customers don’t care.
They just care about complying with federal regulations for PIV cards.
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