| Overview |
The FVC is the world's largest evaluation of fingerprint matching technologies. It is an international competition for fingerprint verification algorithms held biannually and organized by the 3rd party research labs of Italy and USA.
In the most recent two events, FVC2004 and FVC2006, Suprema's fingerprint recognition algorithm ranked top among worldwide participants. |
| Result |
In FVC2004 and FVC2006, Suprema¡¯s fingerprint recognition algorithm ranked top among participants in light and open category, respectively. In FVC2006, Suprema ranked No.1 in medal ranking of open category by winning 7 gold medals. In FVC2004, Suprema ranked No.1 in light category with the lowest error rate.
Suprema is the only company who has won both categories (open and light) of the last two events, FVC2004 and FVC2006.
| FVC2006 (Medal table of Open Category) |
| Algorithm |
Gold Medals |
Silver Medals |
Bronze Medals |
| Suprema |
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| P009 |
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| P088 |
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| P058 |
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| P065 |
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| * Additional information on FVC2006 is available on the Web at http://bias.csr.unibo.it/fvc2006/ |
| FVC2004 (Average results of Light Category) |
| Ranking |
Participants |
Avg EER |
| 1 |
Suprema |
3.51% |
| 2 |
P107 |
3.69% |
| 3 |
P108 |
3.96% |
| 4 |
P101 |
4.29% |
| 5 |
P103 |
4.33% |
Avg EER = Average Equal Error Rate(when FMR is equal to FNMR) |
| * Additional information on FVC2004 is available on the Web at http://bias.csr.unibo.it/fvc2004/ |
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| Aim |
| The aim of the FVC is to track recent advances in fingerprint verification and to benchmark the state-of-the-art in fingerprint technology. |
| Categories |
The Open category has no limits on memory requirements and template size.
The Light category limits on verification time, memory usage and template size. |
| Databases |
For fair comparison, database were collected by using the following sensors/technologies :
| FVC2004 |
CrossMatch (Optical sensor)
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Digital Persona (Optical sensor) |
Atmel (Thermal-sweeping sensor)
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Synthesized image |
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| FVC2006 |
AuthenTec (Electric field sensor)
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Biometrika (Optical sensor) |
Atmel (Thermal sweeping sensor)
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Synthesized image |
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| Participants |
For fair comparison, database were collected by using the following sensors/technologies :
| FVC2004 |
43 participants (29 industrial, 6 academic, and 8 independent developers)
67 algorithms submitted (41 in the Open Category and 26 in the Light Category) |
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| FVC2006 |
53 participants (27 industrial, 13 academic, and 13 independent developers)
70 algorithms submitted (44 in the Open Category and 26 in the Light Category) |
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