Matching Performance for the US-Visit IDENT System Using Flat Fingerprints

Published

November 29, 2004

Author(s)

Charles L. Wilson, Michael D. Garris, Craig I. Watson

Abstract

This report discusses the flat to flat matching performance of the US-VISIT fingerprint matching system. Both one-to-many matching used to detect duplicate visa enrollments and one-to-one matching used to verify the identity of the visa holder are discussed. With the proper selection of an operating point, the one-to-many accuracy for a two-finger comparison against database of 6,000,000 subjects is 95% with a false match rate of 0.08%. Using two fingers, the one-to-one matching accuracy is 99.5% with a false accept rate of 0.1%.

Citation

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 7110

Report Number

7110

NIST Pub Series

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Pub Type

NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.7110

Keywords

fingerprint, flat, IDENT, image quality, indentification, matching, performance, ROC, US-VISIT

Citation

Wilson, C. , Garris, M. and Watson, C. (2004), Matching Performance for the US-Visit IDENT System Using Flat Fingerprints, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.7110 (Accessed October 13, 2025)