Fingerprint verification competition at IJCB2011

This paper summarizes the results of the fingerprint verification competition organized in conjunction with IJCB 2011. The competition focused on benchmarks covering both proprietary encoding and ISO template format. Considering the benchmarks difficulty, some of the algorithms submitted achieved very good accuracy: a 0.7% EER and a 1.1% EER were obtained on two challenging benchmarks, using proprietary and ISO template formats, respectively. Based on the participant self-description of the best performing algorithms we tried to figure out the most promising building-block technologies.