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International Biometric Group (IBG) will soon begin its fourth round of Comparative Biometric Testing, extensive scenario-based testing of biometric systems.

Since 1998, IBG's independent testing has generated detailed false match, false non-match, and failure to enroll rates for leading biometric systems, including finger-scan, facial-scan, iris-scan, voice-scan, signature-scan and hand-scan technologies.

In Round Four, systems from the following companies are being tested:

Bioscrypt (finger-scan), Nuance (voice-scan), Digital Persona (finger-scan), Recognition Systems (hand-scan), Fujitsu (finger-scan), Siemens (finger-scan), Identix (finger-scan), ST Microelectronics (finger-scan), Indivos (finger-scan), Ultra-Scan (finger-scan) and Iridian (iris-scan).

The testing emulates real-world operational conditions as closely as possible to provide applicable information on how well biometric technologies will perform in the field. IBG testing utilizes commercially available systems, normalizing enrollment and verification effort levels across technologies to ensure that test results can be compared across competing systems.

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