Technology evaluations of fingerprint-based biometric systems

Independent and reliable evaluation of the advances in fingerprint recognition is extremely important for several reasons: 1) to give governments, organizations and to every potential user a clear panorama of the potentiality and current limits of this technology; 2) to compare and rank different solutions (academic and commercial); 3) to provide unambiguous benchmarks/protocols to researchers to track their advances. This paper discusses the fingerprint evaluation campaigns organized in the recent years, focusing on the three editions of the Fingerprint Verification Competition (FVC).