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

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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
Biometrics

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 January 25, 2025)

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Created November 29, 2004, Updated November 10, 2018