IDEMIA Tops In NIST's ELFT Fingerprint Tech Evaluations

IDEMIA Public Security, the global provider of biometric and secure identity solutions for government, travel, and law enforcement has once again proven its leadership, showcasing the most accurate algorithms in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) latest Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT) tests.

NIST ELFT

NIST ELFT is the global benchmark for latent fingerprint and palm print identification used to identify latent fingerprints and palm prints found at crime scenes.

For the fourth time in a row, IDEMIA Public Security leads the market with the most accurate and fastest (among the most accurate) algorithms.

Low FPIR

IDEMIA demonstrated vastly superior performance in palmprint identification

In addition to accuracy, which increases the chances of identifying leads in law enforcement investigations, IDEMIA’s algorithms showed a very low False Positive Identification Rate (FPIR at less than 8% whereas the nearest competitor is at above 11%), allowing the latent examiner to process more cases, accurately and faster.

Furthermore, IDEMIA demonstrated vastly superior performance in palmprint identification, another highly significant contribution. Using this technology, the human-artificial Intelligence (AI) duo becomes more productive, and the examiner’s valuable time is optimized.

Fast, accurate, and fair solutions

IDEMIA is committed to the highest level of performance to provide fast, accurate, and fair solutions. As a result, IDEMIA’s customers can solve crimes more quickly, while the communities and the world are made a safer place.

These ELFT results come on the heels of other recent high-ranking performances in NIST benchmarks, further demonstrating IDEMIA’s technology leadership. These include:

FINGERPRINT:

• 1 in the NIST Proprietary Fingerprint Template (PFT) III benchmark on all test datasets in December 2023,
• 1 in NIST ELFT February 2024,
• 1 in the mFIT Challenge in June 2022,

FACE:

• 1 in fairness and demonstrated lack of bias for the NIST Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) in January 2023,

IRIS:

• 1 in the latest NIST Iris Exchange (IREX 10) ranking in September 2023.

Multi-Biometric Search Services (MBSS) solutions

"Based on our performance in this benchmark, we can confirm our long-term commitment to investing in further developing the technology and creating continuously more value for the customers. Our ability to offer cutting-edge products goes hand in hand with our long-standing 50-plus-year pledge to provide law enforcement agencies with the best systems on the market."

"I am very proud to announce that the latest algorithms submitted to this benchmark are already available in our flagship Multi-Biometric Search Services (MBSS) solutions. I would like to congratulate our teams of developers on their hard work and innovation," said Jean-Christophe Fondeur, IDEMIA Public Security Chief Technology Officer.