Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE)

Summary

The Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE) is an independently administered technology evaluation of fingerprint matching, identification, and verification systems. FpVTE was designed to assess the capability of fingerprint systems to meet requirements for both large-scale and small-scale real world applications.

The test is now known as FRIF TE E1N.

Description

Note: FpVTE rebranded as Friction Ridge Image and Features (FRIF) Technology Evaluation (TE) Exemplar One-to-ManY (E1N) in June 2024.

FpVTE 2012

An evaluation of large 1-to-many fingerprint identification algorithms using enrollment sample sizes in the multi-millions.

FpVTE 2003

FpVTE 2003 consists of multiple tests performed with combinations of fingers (e.g., single fingers, two index fingers, four to ten fingers) and different types and qualities of operational fingerprints (e.g., flat livescan images from visa applicants, multi-finger slap livescan images from present-day booking or background check systems, or rolled and flat inked fingerprints from legacy criminal databases).

Contact

The team can be reached by emailing fpvte [at] nist.gov.

 

Created June 4, 2012, Updated June 21, 2024