Project Summary

• Execute industry's first comparative biometric testing on behalf of leading financial institutions interested in real-world performance of biometrics, including fingerprint and facial recognition systems
• Provide False Match Rate, False Non-Match Rate, and Failure to Enroll rate data, as well as user perceptions, system analysis, and study of performance across demographic and age groups
• Enable deployment decisions on the part of major financial institutions for employee and customer applications

IBG Responsibilities

• Conceive, develop, and publish test protocol to ensure statistical validity of comparative performance data
• Incorporate processes for testing six weeks subsequent to enrollment as well as testing of elderly, Asian, and manual laborer sub-populations
• Acquire, configure, and deploy leading systems for comparative test purposes
• Conduct end-user biometric testing, emulating performance in a real-world environment
• Package performance data and key findings in report form to client test sponsors

IBG was engaged by leading financial institutions to conduct the biometric industry's first Comparative Biometric Testing. By testing individuals unfamiliar with biometric systems in a real-world environment, and providing reasonable bounds on enrollment and verification effort, IBG's test data was the first to reveal many of the weaknesses of leading biometric systems.

In particular, IBG's testing provided groundbreaking data in the area of Failure to Enroll - the percentage of individuals unable to register in a biometric system - and False Non-Match Rate over time - the percentage of users rejected by a biometric system six weeks subsequent to enrollment.

IBG's testing has continued since these original efforts, expanding to incorporate iris-scan, voice recognition, signature-scan, and dozens of other leading biometric system. Companies such as Microsoft, Intel, EDS, Lockheed Martin - and government agencies such as the U.S. Department of Energy and Transport Canada - rely on IBG to make decisions on deployment and integration of biometric technology.