Biometrics – IPS, the Flat Earth Society and transformational cosmology

8 It may not be immediately obvious how outrageous NIST's forecast is. In the 2004 international fingerprint verification competition, FVC2004, the best algorithm achieved a false non-match rate of 6.21% at a false match rate of approximately 0%. Even with a false match rate of 1%, the best false non-match rate was 2.54%, and IBM promptly formed a partnership with the winning company, Bioscrypt, Inc. No-one in 2004 had ever seen a flat print fingerprint algorithm capable of IPS's 1% false non-match rate, let alone NIST's 0.5%, and they still haven't.