IDEMIA Public Security Achieves Top-Ranking Accuracy on Latest NIST Benchmark Tests

Courbevoie, France. November 18, 2024 – IDEMIA Public Security, the leading provider of secure and trusted biometric-based solutions, announced today it has delivered top accuracy for its algorithms in multiple categories with the latest National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) benchmark tests, which measure the world’s leading vendors.

The latest release of NIST’s tests, which represents the global benchmark and emphasizes the need for transparent technology solutions among the industry, show that IDEMIA Public Security continues to lead the market with their algorithms, demonstrating its commitment to offering innovative, accurate, and fair solutions. The results for IDEMIA included:

• #1 in the NIST Proprietary Fingerprint Template (PFT) on all test datasets with a focus on 1:1 fingerprint comparison
• #1 in fairness in the NIST Facial Recognition Technology Evaluation (FRTE)
  • IDEMIA’s Facial Recognition Technology ranked the fairest, demonstrating that IDEMIA’s technology maintains its outstanding performance in accuracy among all demographics
• #1 in the NIST Age Evaluation Verification (AEV), evaluating the ability of an AI system to gauge the age of a person based on a portrait

I’m proud to share these latest NIST results, which once again point to our market-leading capabilities and commitment to excellence. In developing accurate and efficient technologies, we take the importance of keeping equity and fairness at the core of our products seriously as we pledge to create value for our customers and a meaningful impact on society, whether it’s enabling law enforcement to solve crimes more quickly or providing government customers the technology to combat identity fraud.
Vincent Bouatou, Chief Technology Officer, IDEMIA Public Security

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