Fingerprint Verification Competition

The Fingerprint Verification Competition is an international competition for fingerprint verification algorithms organized in 2000 by the Biometric System Laboratory, the U.S. National Biometric Test Center and the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Laboratory. After the success of the first edition, three other editions were organized every two years.
These events received great attention both from academic and industrial biometric communities. They established a common benchmark, allowing developers to unambiguously compare their algorithms, and provided an overview of the state-of-the-art in fingerprint recognition.
After the fourth edition, the interest shown in previous editions by the biometrics community has prompted the Biometric System Laboratory to organize a new online evaluation campaign not only limited to fingerprint verification algorithms: FVC-onGoing]. FVC-onGoing offers web-based automatic evaluation of biometric algorithms on a set of sequestered datasets, reporting results using well known performance indicators and metrics. While previous FVC initiatives were organized as “competitions”, with specific calls and fixed time frames, FVC-onGoing is:

an “ongoing competition” always open to new participants;
an evolving online repository of evaluation metrics and results.