BIO-key International has announced that the test results published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown a 23 percent increase on the DHS2 Dataset.

 

With the help of vendor supplied SDKs, NIST has been conducting tests of fingerprint-based biometric matching systems since June of 2003.

 

With these tests, the organization seeks to insure that the accuracy of the matchers used in various existing and planned government systems (including US-VISIT) are comparable to the most accurate available COTS products. The main result obtained from these evaluations is an estimate of how well commercial products performed one-to-one matching for verification.

 

To measure an algorithm’s inherent accuracy, the NIST PFT test has put some rigorous steps in place. It exercises four different datasets of fingerprint images from various real-life government applications, such as Department of Homeland Security. These datasets offer features such as realistic independent vendor results, given how that data was captured, and the capture device used.

 

“For some of the datasets used in the NIST testing there is little variation in the performance of the tested algorithms. These variations are in the thousandths of a point to differentiate vendors,” noted Mira LaCous, vice president of technology and development at BIO-key. “The DHS2 dataset, which is the most challenging of the four tested, ranks BIO-key as one of the top three providers worldwide.”

 

With the help of datasets collected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of State, NIST conducts this ongoing public testing program for fingerprint algorithms. The DHS2 Dataset is considered to be the most difficult dataset tested by the NIST Proprietary Template tests (PFT).

 

Recently, InterAct Public Safety Systems announced the completion of its acquisition of BIO-key International’s Law Enforcement Division. All the products offered by the Law Enforcement Division, including MobileCop, PocketCop and InfoExchange, are now owned by InterAct. Company officials said that these products will operate within the InterAct Connections Framework under InterActMobile, the company stated in a press release.